Angle of Repose

Grass Valley is a masterpiece of American literature by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner, a deeply moving narrative of one family's journey through the hardscrabble West.

The novel follows the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease, as he retreats to his ancestral home in Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who made her own journey through the West nearly a hundred years before.

Through discovering her story, Lyman excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him.

With its amplitude of scale and richness of detail, Grass Valley is a superb novel that will leave readers with a sense of enhancement of life.