This month the Page Turners book club returns to its regular monthly discussion meetings. Our selection is Wallace Stegner’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Angle of Repose.
“Angle of Repose tells the story of Lyman Ward, 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. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease and dependent on others for his every need, Ward is nonetheless embarking on a search of monumental proportions—to rediscover his grandmother, now long dead, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a hundred years earlier. Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward’s investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life.” —LitLovers.com
The novel can be considered historical fiction as it is based on the correspondence of the 19th century writer, Mary Hallock Foote.
Wallace Stegner has been called “The Dean of West- ern Writers.” He taught at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard, then settled in at Stanford University, where he founded the creative writing program. His students included Sandra Day O’Connor, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Thomas McGuane, Ken Kesey, Gordon Lish, Ernest Gaines, and Larry McMurtry. He also served as a special assistant to Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall.
Page Turners consists of three groups that all read the same book each month. Two groups meet the fourth Thurs- day afternoon of the month and the other group meets the fourth Monday afternoon. We welcome new members. For information on the Thursday groups, contact Steve and Ann Morris at samwrsi@cox.net and for the Monday group contact Frances at fozimec@cox.net.
—Frances Ozimec
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