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Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1971
Pages
Pages 570

A paralyzed historian pieces together his grandparents' marriage from old letters, following an Eastern woman west with her mining engineer husband, and reads her long settling for less as an answer to his own broken marriage.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner

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