Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter, 1937 The Big Rock Candy Mountain, 1943 Joe Hill, 1950 All the Little Live Things, 1967 (Commonwealth Club Gold Medal) A Shooting Star, 1961 Angle of Repose, 1971 (Pulitzer Prize) The Spectator Bird, 1976 (National Book Award, 1977) Recapitulation, 1979 and Crossing to Safety, 1987. 'Cause for celebration.A superb novel with an amplitude of scale and richness of detail altogether uncommon in contemporary fiction.'- The Atlantic Monthly 'Brilliant.Two stories, past and present, merge to produce what important fiction must: a sense of the enhancement of life.'- Los Angeles Times Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 'Masterful.Reading it is an experience to be treasured.'- Boston Globe In discovering her story he excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him. Amid the chaos of 1970s counterculture he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before. Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease and dependant on others for his every need. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece.Īn American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner-a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. About the Book Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family.

Author of angle of repose