Angle of Repose

E-285: Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, NY, 1971. 569 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth with gilt titles present to the spine and the front board. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. An American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner—a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past. Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease and dependant on others for his every need. Amid the chaos of 1970s counterculture he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before. In discovering her story he excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him. Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U. S. National Book Award in 1977. EB; 8.4 X 5.7 X 1.9 inches; 569 pages .