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Angle of Repose Audio Book
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Angle of Repose
Author:
Wallace Stegner
Reader: Mark Bramhall
The story of four generations of an American family in the mining camps of the West. Researching how his grandparents settled on the frontier, a historian makes a journey of discovery as he uncovers a love story built on sacrifice, devotion, and integrity. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. "Masterful... an experience to be treasured."—Boston Globe
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Available Audio Book Editions:
| M9B427 |
UNABRIDGED |
Audio CDs ( 17 ) |
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Publish Date: 12/01/2009
ISBN: 9781441714275
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| M2B428 |
Unabridged |
MP3-CD (2) |
$44.95 |
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Synopsis:
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A retired, ailing history professor, Lyman Ward, has been deserted by his wife. To distract himself from pain, both physical and emotional, he embarks on the project of editing the private papers of his grandmother, an artist and writer married to a geologist. Ward recounts the story of his grandparents' life juxtaposed with his own--specifically, the betrayals of his grandmother and his own wife. Stegner masterfully evokes the Western landscape as well as the complex tensions between art and life. Stegner's magisterial tale, an American classic, was voted the best Western novel of the 20th century in a poll taken by the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Winner of the
1972 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction |
Author Bio:
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Stegner's father, a wanderer and a dreamer--and eventually a suicide--was unable to settle down. His family moved often when Wallace was a child, living in Iowa, North Dakota, Washington state, Montana, Salt Lake City, and a tiny Saskatchewan town Stegner used frequently in his fiction. He entered the University of Utah at 16, where he was encouraged to write, and he did graduate work at Iowa. He was married in 1934--a union that lasted all his life--and had one child, a son. Stegner taught at various universities, including directing the prestigious writing program at Stanford. He was also an active environmentalist. When he was awarded the National Medal for the Arts from the NEA in 1992, he declined, in protest against the Bush administration. Stegner was an unrelenting realist who concentrated on the Western landscape, and the perennial theme in his novels was the quest for identity and permanence in an America that is both fragmented and rootless. When he died at 83 from injuries sustained in an auto accident, the outpouring of grief was a measure of the reverence in which he was held; Edward Abbey declared him to be``the only living American worthy of the Nobel.''
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