Angle of Repose
- Auteur: Wallace Stegner (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1971
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin
- Omvang: 640 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Nederlandse vertaling: De fundamenten van ons leven
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris
Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose recensie, review en informatie
- “De raamvertelling heeft het effect dat het leven van de 91-jarige Susan Ward een rustig en welverdiend einde krijgt, maar dat Stegner dat de lamentabele Lyman beslist niet gunt.” (Wijbren Rijkeboer, Tzum)
Flaptekst van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Wallace Stegner
An iconic novel of the American West — a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of the past.
Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, in the Sierra Nevada. Living with a debilitating bone disease, he embarks on a search of monumental proportions, as he strives to rediscover the life of his grandmother – now long dead – who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a hundred years earlier. But as he explores his grandmother’s history, Lyman’s great quest also leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life.
Wallace Stegner (18 February 1909, Lake Mills, Iowa – 13 April 
1993, Santa Fe, New Mexico) , was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist and historian. He is the author of 30 books including Angle of Repose (1971) and The Spectator Bird (1977). He received a Pulitzer Prize, a US National Book Award, several O. Henry prizes, and the 1980 Robert Kirsch award from the Los Angeles Times for lifetime literary achievements. He died in a car accident in 1993.