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Angle of repose.''
Angle of Repose is a 1971 novel by
Wallace Stegner about a wheelchair bound historian, Lyman Ward, who has lost connection with his son and living family and decides to write about his frontier era grandparents. It won the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972. The book is loosely based on the life of
Mary Hallock Foote and included portions of her letters.
Category:1971 books
Category:Books by title
Category:Modern Library 100 best novels