Filled with awesome views of the western united states through stegner's beautiful writing. This book shows 4 generations of a western family and how Eastern culture shaped them and how they eventually became westerners. His grandfather, however, was a self-taught engineer, mapping miles and miles of mines in California, Idaho and elsewhere.
His grandparents had started out Easterners with at least his grandmother assuming that they would eventually move back there to be part of the literary circle she had grown to love and be a part of. Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease and dependant. The angle of repose, or critical angle of repose, of a granular material is the steepest angle of descent or dip relative to the horizontal plane to which a material can be piled without slumping. He has moved back into his grandparents' farm house and is going through the reams of letters, artwork, and journals of his grandparents (his grandfather was an engineer in the New West and his grandmother a celebrated artist from the Hudson School). An American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegnera deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past. The narrator is a survivor of bone disease and is confined to a wheelchair. This is the novel he won the Pulitzer Prize for. I didn't listen to the audio recording of this, but they didn't have a picture of the book otherwise.
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