Lyman is most interested in his grandmother’s marriage.
He gathers personal letters and professional documents relating to his grandmother’s long life and begins her story. Now living in a home that has been modified for his disabilities, he manages with caretaking help from longtime neighbors. Lyman Ward has lived through the turbulent years of the late 1960s at the University of California, Berkeley. Determined to write a biography of his beloved and famous artist/author grandmother, he moves into his grandparent’s long-empty home in Grass Valley, California. Recently divorced by his wife, he struggles to find his way through the turns his life has taken. Lyman Ward is an ill and wheelchair-bound retired history professor (aged 58). West Coast and the personal costs of living through the explosive development of the west in the 1800s. It is such an American story: a story of East Coast vs. I will grab the latest edition of Angle of Repose, always in print, and unabashedly tell my customer that it is the best book I’ve read in a long time. So, instead of writing specifically of plot, action, and characters, I’m going to imagine that I’m still working in a bookstore when a customer walks in and asks for a good read.
Most of you who read this review will be familiar with Angle of Repose and its standing as a classic in American literature. The notes were botanical and geological, and not a one was literary. With a bit more delving, I found I had read the book ten years earlier. It took only about fifty pages into the book to recognize the handwriting as my own. Buying a used book with such notetaking is not something I generally do. Even more of a surprise as I began reading Angle of Repose (a copy which I unexpectedly found on my own shelves), was the marginalia throughout the book. If Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose hadn’t been the Clayton Community Library Book Club pick for January 2019, I never would have chosen it for review sometimes we readers just get lucky.Ī lot of book clubs draw the line on reading books over four-hundred pages, so it was a bit of a surprise that Stegner’s novel, all five-hundred-plus pages, was voted in as our first read of 2019. Because it is a new year doesn’t mean a reviewed book has to be new.
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