Angle of Repose

Informationen zum Autor Wallace Stegner Klappentext Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter, 1937; A Shooting Star, 1961; Angle of Repose (Pulitzer Prize), 1971; The Spectator Bird (National Book award), 1977; Recapitulation, 1979. Three of his short stories have won O.Henry prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch award from the Los Angeles Time for his lifetime literary achievements. His collected stories were published in 1990. Zusammenfassung Tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks on a search to rediscover his grandmother, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a 100 years earlier.

Product details

• Authors: Jackson J. Benson, Wallace Stegner
• Assisted by: Jackson J. Benson (Introduction), Benson Jackson J. (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2006
• EAN: 9780141188003
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118800-3
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New York City, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, US West, FICTION / Multiple Timelines, c 1850 to c 1859, Fiction based on or inspired by true events