Format:
Book
Author:
Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993.
Title:
Angle of repose / Wallace Stegner.
Publisher, Date:
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1992.
Description:
569 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary:
Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. Four generations in the life of an American family are chronicled as retired historian Lyman Ward, confined to a wheelchair, decides to write his grandparent's history. The Pulitzer Prize-winning classic has been selected by the board of the Modern Library as one of the best hundred novels of the 20th century.
Series:
Contemporary American fiction
Contemporary American fiction.
Subjects:
People with disabilities -- Fiction.
Married people -- Fiction.
Grandparents -- Fiction.
Historians -- Fiction.
Adultery -- Fiction.
Older people -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
People with disabilities.
Older people.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Notes:
Accelerated Reader AR 6.9 35.0 10829.
Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 6.9 35 SD Quiz 10829 English fiction.
1972 Pulitzer
Contents:
Grass Valley -- New Almaden -- Santa Cruz -- Leadville -- Michoacán -- On the bough -- The canyon -- The mesa -- The Zodiac Cottage.
Web Site:
LCCN:
91044514
ISBN:
0141185473
9780141185477
9780785798477
0785798471
9780140169300
014016930X
1101872764
9781101872765
Other Number:
24953754
System Availability:
4
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
4
Control Number:
978994
Call Number:
FICTION Stegner
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
2
# System items in:
2