Angle of Repose: Modern Classic
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Wallace Stegnerβs 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. Through a combination of research, memory, and exaggeration, Ward voices ideas concerning the relationship between history and the present, art and life, parents and children, husbands and wives. Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Wardβs investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. The result is a deeply moving novel that, through the prism of one family, illuminates the American present against the fascinating background of its past.
Set in many parts of the West, Angle of Repose is a story of discoveryβpersonal, historical, and geographicalβthat endures as Wallace Stegnerβs masterwork, an illumination of yesterdayβs reality that speaks to todayβs.
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Wallace Stegner (1909β1993) wrote many books of fiction and nonfiction, including Crossing to Safety and the National Book Awardβwinning The Spectator Bird. Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972.
Mark Bramhall has won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration, more than thirty AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has repeatedly been named by AudioFile magazine and Publishers Weekly among their βBest Voices of the Year.β He is also an award-winning actor whose acting credits include off-Broadway, regional, and many Los Angeles venues as well as television, animation, and feature films. He has taught and directed at the American Academy of Dramatic Art.
