Wallace stegners pultizer prizewinning novel is a story of discoverypersonal, historical, and geographical. Stegners pulitzer prizewinning novel of personal, historical, and geographic discovery confined to a wheelchair, retired historian lyman ward sets out to write. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 569 pages and is available in paperback format. Angle of repose penguin twentiethcentury classics kindle. Angle of repose penguin modern classics by wallace stegner 20060330 by wallace stegner jan 1, 1745. Based on the correspondence of the littleknown 19th century writer, mary hallock foote, the novels heroes represent opposing but equally strong strains of the american.
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