Description: A deeply moving novel that, through the prism of one family, illuminates the American present against the fascinating background of our past

Angle of Repose tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease and dependent on others for his every need, Ward is nonetheless embarking on a search of monumental proportions -- to rediscover his grandmother, now long dead, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a hundred years earlier. Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward's investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life.

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Reviews: "Masterful ...Reading it is an experience to be treasured" --The Boston Globe

"Brilliant ...Two stories, past and present, merge to produce what important fiction must: a sense of the enhancement of life." --Los Angeles Times