by Wallace Stegner · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140169300
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«Angle of Repose» is the literary fiction novel by Wallace Stegner, published by Penguin Books in paperback (569 pages, in English).
Lyman Ward, a retired historian confined to a wheelchair, sets out to reconstruct the lives of his grandparents in the mining towns of the American West in the nineteenth century. His investigation of the frontier becomes a journey into his own history and a portrait of four generations of an American family.
«Angle of Repose» won the Pulitzer Prize and was selected by the Modern Library among the hundred best novels of the twentieth century.
Recommended for adult readers who enjoy family sagas and historical narratives set on the American frontier.
Wallace Earle Stegner was an American novelist, writer, environmentalist, and historian. He was often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977.
