Angle of Repose

Hardcover, 569 pages

English language

Published 1971 by Doubleday.

OCLC Number:
127553

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In the unfolding drama of the story of America, there are few literary milestones which point the way toward understanding not only the past but the present, and it is in such company that Wallace Stegner's masterwork, Angle of Repose, must take its place. Mr. Stegner has written a novel, but the story he tells transcends fiction. It is an investigation, an illumination of yesterday's reality that speaks to today's

Angle of Repose is, in the author's words, "a novel about Time, as much as anything—about people who live through time, who believe in both a past and a future." Angle of Repose a geological term for (the slope at which rocks cease to roll) is set in many parts of the West—California, the Dakota, Colorado, Idaho, Mexico—but it is in no sense a regional novel. It is neither an "historical" nor a "pioneer" novel although it covers four generations …

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