Angle of Repose (Paperback)

from Polaris-

Quite a memorable read, although there was a slight lag in some of the middle chapters (although not so much to discourage me). Stegner's writing is sumptuous and full of beautiful lyrical description of setting and a real sense of a place in time. The novel is set in the early 1970s as a retired...

from lauralkeet

What interests me in all these papers is not Susan Burling Ward the novelist and illustrator, and not Oliver Ward the engineer, and not the West they spend their lives in. What really interests me is how two such unlike particles clung together, and under what strains, rolling downhill into their...

from -Cee-

This was a book that swept me away! Nothing else around me existed while I was reading this. It will no doubt be in my top 10 this year. Stegner's writing was stuffed with gems of insight on human behavior and emotions, and beautifully detailed descriptions. There are so many impressive passages ...

from porch_reader

I know that my review won't do this book justice. So, suffice it to say that if you haven't read this book, you should. It's is definitely among my favorite books of the past few years. Lyman Ward is a retired historian. Confined to a wheelchair, he returns to his grandparents' house to read thro...

from lit_chick

2009, Blackstone Audiobooks, Read by Mark Bramhall Lyman Ward, a recently divorced university professor, wheelchair-bound by a debilitating bone disease, has retired to the California home of his paternal grandparents, where he is researching the life of his grandmother, Susan Burling Ward. Susan...