The Resource Angle of repose, Wallace Stegner
Angle of repose, Wallace Stegner
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- Summary
- Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. 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 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 569 pages
- Contents
-
- Grass Valley
- New Almaden
- Santa Cruz
- Leadville
- Michoacán
- On the bough
- The canyon
- The mesa
- The Zodiac Cottage
- Isbn
- 9780140169300
- Label
- Angle of repose
- Title
- Angle of repose
- Statement of responsibility
- Wallace Stegner
- Subject
-
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueDomestic fiction
- People with disabilities -- Fiction
- trueGrandsons
- trueMarital conflict
- trueThe West (United States)
- Domestic fiction
- Grandparents -- Fiction
- trueGrandmothers
- Fictional Works Publication Type
- Older people -- Fiction
- California
- Disabled Persons
- Historians -- Fiction
- Adultery
- trueExtramarital affairs
- Grandparents
- California -- Fiction
- trueFamily sagas
- Older people
- Married people -- Fiction
- trueCalifornia
- Aged
- Historians
- People with disabilities
- trueModern classics
- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Married people
- Adultery -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. 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 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
- Summary
- Susan and her engineer husband live rough lives in mining camps during the late 19th century, and their marriage cannot survive
- Award
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1972.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 057387
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1909-1993
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Stegner, Wallace
- Dewey number
- 813/.52
- Index
- no index present
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 1020
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Contemporary American fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- People with disabilities
- Married people
- Grandparents
- Historians
- Adultery
- Older people
- California
- Domestic fiction
- Fictional Works Publication Type
- Disabled Persons
- Aged
- Adultery
- Domestic fiction
- Grandparents
- Historians
- Married people
- Older people
- People with disabilities
- California
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Angle of repose, Wallace Stegner
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Grass Valley -- New Almaden -- Santa Cruz -- Leadville -- Michoacán -- On the bough -- The canyon -- The mesa -- The Zodiac Cottage
- Control code
- ocm24953754
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- 569 pages
- Isbn
- 9780140169300
- Lccn
- 91044514
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)24953754
- Label
- Angle of repose, Wallace Stegner
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Grass Valley -- New Almaden -- Santa Cruz -- Leadville -- Michoacán -- On the bough -- The canyon -- The mesa -- The Zodiac Cottage
- Control code
- ocm24953754
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- 569 pages
- Isbn
- 9780140169300
- Lccn
- 91044514
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)24953754
Subject
- Adultery
- Adultery -- Fiction
- Aged
- California
- trueCalifornia
- California -- Fiction
- Disabled Persons
- trueDomestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- trueExtramarital affairs
- trueFamily sagas
- Fiction
- Fictional Works Publication Type
- trueGrandmothers
- Grandparents
- Grandparents -- Fiction
- trueGrandsons
- Historians
- Historians -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMarital conflict
- Married people
- Married people -- Fiction
- trueModern classics
- Older people
- Older people -- Fiction
- People with disabilities
- People with disabilities -- Fiction
- trueThe West (United States)
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