He's very principled, which results in some lost advancement opportunities and jobs. Oliver, her husband, is a dutiful husband and father, and an expert mine engineer who lacks the benefit of a college degree. She's a cultivated Eastern artist and writer who marries on a whim to escape a love affair gone wrong. Susan's story takes place beginning in the latter-half of the 19th century. Lyman, needing something to occupy himself, is researching and writing a biography of his grandmother, Susan Burling Ward. Also, Lyman's wife left him after he became ill. Lyman is wheelchair-bound because he has a degenerative bone disease, one which has already cost him a lower leg. The first time frame occurs in late '60s Bay Area California, and consists of a wheelchair-bound historian, Lyman Ward. It takes place in two different time frames. Removed Tts_version 3.Angle of Repose is a 1972 novel by Wallace Stegner. Urn:lcp:angleofrepose0000steg:epub:9655eed1-a0a8-41ea-ba26-06a1c078ea66 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier angleofrepose0000steg Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8xb0vn4m Invoice 2089 Isbn 014016930XĠ785798471 Lccn 91044514 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Old_pallet IA17626 Page_number_confidence 92.90 Pages 678 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200403140640 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 428 Scandate 20200402124710 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781101872765 Source Grass Valley - New Almaden - Santa Cruz - Leadville - Michoacan - On the bough - The canyon - The mesa - The Zodiac CottageĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:01:16 Boxid IA1799216 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Grass Valley - New Almaden - Santa Cruz - Leadville - Michoacán - On the bough - The canyon - The mesa - The Zodiac Cottage 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

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 unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family.

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