6/28/2023 0 Comments Angle of repose novel![]() ![]() The result is a deeply moving novel that, through the prism of one family, illuminates the American present against the fascinating background of its past. ![]() Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward's investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that. an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands. By touch we are betrayed and betray others. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. Angle of Repose Quotes Showing 1-30 of 99. "Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery-personal, historical, and geographical. Winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. ![]() Boards, jacket spine and edges, and corner of top page edge lightly stained, Pulitzer Prize sticker on jacket corner (unsold copies of the original run probably had these added when the award was announced), jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from spine head and foot. First edition, first printing, in first state jacket ($7.95 price with A.O.R. ![]()
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