Angle of Repose Summary
Wallace Stegner

Angle of Repose Summary

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel about marriage. It is told by a former college professor and historian who looks at his grandparents’ lives in search of a reason for the success or failure of a marriage.

Lyman Ward is confined to a wheelchair for he suffers from a bone disease and has had to have his leg amputated. His wife left him, while he...

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