Angle of Repose
1971 novel by Wallace Stegner / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Angle of Repose is a 1971 novel by Wallace Stegner about a wheelchair-using historian, Lyman Ward, who has lost connection with his son and living family and decides to write about his frontier-era grandparents. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972. The novel is directly based on the letters of Mary Hallock Foote, later published as A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West.
Author | Wallace Stegner |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 1971 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
ISBN | 0-14-016930-X |
OCLC | 24953754 |
813/.52 20 | |
LC Class | PS3537.T316 A8 1992 |
Stegner's use of substantial passages from Foote's actual letters as the correspondence of his fictional character Susan Burling Ward was and remains controversial among some scholars.[1][2] While Stegner's defenders have claimed that he had received permission to use Foote's writings,[3] as the book's acknowledgments page implies, others point out that he secured that permission only after falsely claiming that his novel would not use any direct quotations.[4]
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Angle of Repose #82 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.