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by Wallace Earle Stegner (Author) "Now I believe they will leave me alone ..." (more)
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This long, thoughtful novel about a retired historian who researches and writes about his pioneer grandparents garnered Stegner a Pulitzer Prize.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Masterful...Reading it is an experience to be treasured. The Boston Globe --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of my top 5 favorite books, July 6 2004
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This review is from: Angle Of Repose (Paperback)
I just keep coming back to this book. It's lovely. I love the depiction of the west and the view of the world from the narrator's eyes. I just can't recommend it enough.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning, April 10 2004
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Beautiful novel with rich and evocative detail, telling the story of four generations of a family. The story focuses on the tale of the narrators grandparents, early pioneers of the American West.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Take your sweet time to ponder..., Jan 28 2004
By Paul S. Crawford (Pleasanton, CA) - See all my reviews
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I really wanted to love this book that my bookstore guru gave 5 stars. I don't think I'll ever NOT like a book I've chosen to read. Afterwards I still have that curious feeling that these characters are my friends and teachers and now I have to bid a sad farewell. But I didn't really LOVE these characters, but deeply had a respect for them...well except Augusta who annoyed me because I don't warm up to Eastern Society-types. Susan made me more understanding though. I got over my initial and recurring problem that I had personally with this book. I kept wanting it to be Michener's Centennial. I wanted MORE adventure and history at the locations Susan and Oliver dwelt in, but this was Stengner NOT Michener...and this has a wealth of great descriptive prose and simile that rivaled anything I'd read. So once I disciplined myself, the book seeped into me. It wasn't tedious, but steady. It read fast only a few times for me, mostly it was something to savor and liken to oneself. This revealed the treasure it contains thematically. I liked the 4-generations compared between the lines too. Usually disruptions in the flow of a novel's base story irritate me a bit, but this had an even inspiring effect. In my GREAT imagination, I found myself "writing" my own 4-generation story as I read. My Grandparents' role in shaping the west that was something not very Victorian in morality emerged, I confess... and we're continuing the saga some of us! This book will stir you to thinking long and seriously if you let it in. For that I ought to give it another star.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Revel in the Phrasing
A retired professor, confined to a wheelchair in his family home in northern California, collects notes to write his grandmother's life story and ends up telling his own. Read more
Published on Feb 4 2004 by Michelle Eugeni

4.0 out of 5 stars A haunting story, but...
First of all, I wanted to like this book more than I did. It was the innaugural choice for a newly-formed book club of college professors here in Idaho, so with much of the book... Read more
Published on Dec 21 2003 by HardyBoy64

4.0 out of 5 stars A haunting story, but....
First of all, I wanted to like this book more than I did. It was the innaugural choice for a newly-formed book club of college professors here in Idaho, so with much of the book... Read more
Published on Dec 15 2003 by Robert Colvin

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the great novels about the real West
One of Wallace Stegner's greatest peeves as a Western writer was the myth of the West that was promulgated in the bulk of the books about the region. Read more
Published on Nov 19 2003 by Robert Moore

5.0 out of 5 stars Moving and Thought-Provoking
I couldn't put this one down. The prose was lovely, the descriptions so vivid, the characters so complex, the narrative threads so surprising. Read more
Published on July 28 2003 by M. Cutler

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, thoughtful, mesmerizing
Angle of Repose is a commentary on marriage, what makes it work and what makes it fail. A severely disabled (wheelchair bound) professor, whose marriage has failed, researches and... Read more
Published on Jun 23 2003 by Peggy Vincent

4.0 out of 5 stars Nearly great
Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Angle of Repose" is one of those highly readable, but long, works that has a sort of uncomplicated depth while coming at us... Read more
Published on May 30 2003 by Tim Weber

1.0 out of 5 stars The Wrong Angle
This is one of the worst novels written about the American West. Why?

Let's start with the style It's positively Victorian, like Thackary or Hardy on a bad day. Read more

Published on Dec 19 2002

4.0 out of 5 stars An important novel of immense pathos and depth
Angle of repose, as defined in Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning work, is the angle of incline along a riverbed at which dirt and rocks will not slide. Read more
Published on Dec 11 2002 by Matthew Krichman

5.0 out of 5 stars An uncommonly good book about self and place
I have far more books on my shelves than I've read. This one I have read, greedily. It is as seductive as reading old letters from an attic. Read more
Published on Nov 23 2002 by Ian Herriott

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