An American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner.
Angle of Repose 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 nonetheless on a search to rediscover his grandmother, not long dead, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a hundred years earlier.