Angle of Repose av Wallace Stegner

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<p><b>An iconic novel of the American West </b><b>¿ a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of the past</b><br><br>Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, in the Sierra Nevada. Living with a debilitating bone disease, he embarks on a search of monumental proportions, as he strives to rediscover the life of his grandmother ¿ now long dead ¿ who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a hundred years earlier. But as he explores his grandmother''s history, Lyman''s great quest also leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life.<br><br>Winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, <i>Angle of Repose </i>is Wallace Stegner¿s masterpiece and a fascinating glimpse into frontier-era America.<br><br>With an Introduction by JACKSON J. BENSON</p>