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Angle of Repose
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 22 hrs and 9 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1971, Angle of Repose has also been selected by the editorial board of the Modern Library as one of the hundred best novels of the 20th century.
Wallace Stegner's uniquely American classic centers on Lyman Ward, a noted historian who relates a fictionalized biography of his pioneer grandparents at a time when he has become estranged from his own family. Through a combination of research, memory, and exaggeration, Ward voices ideas concerning the relationship between history and the present, art and life, parents and children, and husbands and wives. Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward's investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. 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.
Set in many parts of the West, Angle of Repose is a story of discovery - personal, historical, and geographical - that endures as Wallace Stegner's masterwork: an illumination of yesterday's reality that speaks to today's.
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"Masterful...Reading it is an experience to be treasured." ( Boston Globe)
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- Sharan Ann B.
- 18-06-2022
Fictional history at it's best
Loved every moment of it. Such a story of love and life and the pioneer spirit without murder and mayhem. The voice of the reader is so right to the ear. My first understanding of the reasoning behind the awarding of The Pulitzer Prize.
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