A modernday historian, lyman ward, is looking back, doing painstaking research of his family, and his findings become a story on one level the story of those people. Wallace stegner s pulitzer prizewinning novel is a story of discoverypersonal, historical, and geographical. Angle of repose penguin twentiethcentury classics kindle. In order to do that, he plans on holing up in their old homedubbed the zodiac cottageand writing all day, every day. Buy wallace stegner ebooks to read online or download in pdf or epub on your pc, tablet or mobile device. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Wallace stegner 19091993 was the author of, among other novels, all the little live things winner of a commonwealth club gold medal, angle of repose winner of the pulitzer prize, and the spectator bird winner of the national book award. Wallace stegner founded the acclaimed stanford writing programa program whose alumni include such literary luminaries as larry mcmurtry, robert stone, and raymond carver. The book has an interesting, and at times challenging, structure.
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