![]() Based upon the life and letters of Mary Hallock Foote, a little known writer and illustrator of life in the American West, with the permission of the Foote family, Angle of Repose has been the subject of criticism because of it. ![]() ![]() Lyman Ward is an amputee, unable to move his neck, plagued by the pains and limitations of bone disease, who has retired to his grandparents cabin, holding out against his son’s attempts to move him to a nursing home, and writing the story of his grandmother’s life. Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward’s investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. 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. ![]() A deeply moving novel that, through the prism of on family, illuminates the American present against the fascinating background of our past.Īngle 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. ![]()
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