Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose (1971): Telling The Story of the American West

Wallace Stegner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Angle of Repose (1971) is the great novel of the American West. we follow an engaging if problematic narrator as he unearths his grandparents’ turbulent marriage. in the late nineteenth century. ,Susan Ward and her husband Oliver face fundamental conflicts over values, culture, and geographic orientation as they travel from California to Colorado to Mexico. This is a brilliant and absorbing novel that covers much of American history and addresses unresolved tensions in American culture today.