Stegner, Wallace
Angle of Repose (Penguin Modern Classics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780141188003
- author:
- Stegner, Wallace
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin Classics
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2006
- Pages:
- 592
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.5 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Modern fiction
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Set against the backdrop of 1960s America, Lyman Ward's journey to rediscover his grandmother's life story becomes a search for his own identity. Abandoned by his wife and struggling with a debilitating bone disease, Ward returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada, where he uncovers the detailed letters and personal writings of his grandmother Susan Burling Ward.
Through these writings, Ward follows the refined and educated Susan and her rugged husband Oliver on their journey from New York to California, tracing the struggles, infidelity, jealousy, and tragedy that shaped their lives as they forged a new life in the Western states. As Ward delves deeper into his grandmother's story, he probes the shadows of his own experience and the America that has come of age around him.
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