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- The Best Western Books of All TimeReading list
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner is a western novel that tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired history professor who is trying to write a book about his grandparents. While going through their belongings, he becomes obsessed with their lives and the choices they made. The novel is set in the western United…
- Kim Brown SeelyInterview
The Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (which I discovered when it won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry…I didn’t read much poetry then, but now I can’t live without it), Garden Time by W.S. Merwin, and both Mink River and The Plover by Brian Doyle.
- Lisa SeeInterview
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner – I used a couple of lines from this novel as the epigraph for my first book, On Gold Mountain. I didn’t realize when I used them that they would come to symbolize how I see myself as a writer. He wrote: “Fooling around in the papers my grandparents, especially my grandmother, left…
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