Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
Category: Novel
Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Literature, Adults
Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins, Stegners Pulitzer Prize-winning novelthe magnificent story of four generations in the life of an American family., Crippled Lyman Ward researches and looks back on the pioneering life of his grandparents, in particular the life of his genteel eastern educated Grandmother, as they try to forge a new life and find civilization in the new untamed west., He is forced to reflect on his own circumstances when looking back on his grandmothers ultimately tragic relationship with her husbands assistant, Frank Sergeant., This is an epic book that effortlessly takes you into the beating pulse of the wild west and into the lives that had to endure it., Angle of Repose explores many themes, not least the comparisons between the inhibited Victorian Grandmother and the liberated Shelley who acts as Lymans secretary, typing out his recorded transcripts., Who exactly was/is the trailblazer?, Did his grandmothers moral inhibitions and values make her any less susceptible to t
