Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose

Pros: One of the absolutely best books I've ever read. A classic!

Cons: None! None! None!!!

The Bottom Line: You won't be able to put this book down, and you'll be sorry to see it end!

Review: A griping, well-written, touching, penetratingly human story told with fervor and majesty. The descriptions were incredible! The arrival into Leadville, the harrowing ride up the mountain in the bitter cold, the tender moment when Oliver made breakfast...

Pros: One of the best novels ever written

Cons: None

Review: Out of the hundreds of novels I have read, this one stands out. Winner of the 1971 Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the best novels of the century.

The story parallels the lives of Lyman Ward, a wheelchair-bound retired historian and the life...

Pros: Excellent writing, characters and story; an American masterpiece

Cons: While it's trite to say "none," I'm going to be trite: none

Review: Angle of Repose is simply one of the "Great American Novels" that everyone supposedly wants to write. Wallace Stegner provides exactly that, through an incredibly engaging narrative. The book is told in two time periods -- the first,...

Pros: Amazing writing style, and fantastic story

Cons: the book is legnthy

Review: Angle of Repose is the story of a man who is crushed internally by a leg amputation and who is piecing his own life back togeather through his family history. The style of writing is phenomenal and the acute descriptions which Stegner attributes the...