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Bo Mason, his wife, and two boys live a transient life of poverty, drifting from town to town and from state to state, seeking their fortune or at least a living. It is the conflict between the hardscrabble existence and Bos pursuit of the frontier myth and of the American dream that gives the book such resonance and power.

Lyman Ward, a noted historian, relates a fictionalized biography of his pioneer grandparents at a time when he has become estranged from his own family. Set in many parts of the West, Angle of Repose is a story of discoverypersonal, historical, and geographicalthat endures as Wallace Stegner's masterwork.

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Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner recounts the remarkable career of Major John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of the Southwest Indian tribes. This classic work is a penetrating and insightful study of the Powell's career, from the beginning of the Powell Survey, in which Powell and his men famously became the first to descend the Colorado River,...

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Bo Mason, his wife, and two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune, eventually becoming a rum-runner in the American Northwest

Wallace Stegner's uniquely American classic centers on Lyman Ward, a noted historian who relates a fictionalized biography of his pioneer grandparents at a time when he has become estranged from his own family.

Wallace Stegner's uniquely American classic centers on Lyman Ward, a noted historian who relates a fictionalized biography of his pioneer grandparents at a time when he has become estranged from his own family.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1971, Angle of Repose has also been selected by the editorial board of the Modern Library as one of the hundred best novels of the twentieth century.

Bo Mason, his wife, and two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune, eventually becoming a rum-runner in the American Northwest

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner's fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling it

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner's fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling it