Angle of Repose is a 1971 novel by American novelist Wallace Stegner about Lyman Ward, a wheelchair using historian who has lost connection with his son and living family and turns to writing about his frontier era grandparents. Stegner drew directly on the actual letters of Mary Hallock Foote, later published as A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West, using substantial passages from them as the correspondence of his fictional character Susan Burling Ward, a choice that remains controversial among some scholars over the permission he obtained to use her writing. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972, and in 1998 the Modern Library ranked it eighty second on its list of the hundred best English language novels of the twentieth century. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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What does the title Angle of Repose mean?
It is an engineering term for the angle at which loose soil finally settles.
The title is an engineering term for the angle at which soil finally settles after, for example, being dumped from a mine as tailings. It seems to have been taken from the writings of Mary Hallock Foote, and it seems to describe the loose wandering of the Ward family as they try to carve out a civilized existence in the West.
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Angle of Repose is a 1971 novel by American novelist 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.
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In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Angle of Repose #82 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
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Angle of Repose is a 1971 novel by American novelist 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.
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Angle of Repose is a 1971 novel by American novelist 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.
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