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A review by kelliecart
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
5.0
I love a book that takes you on a physical as well as emotional journey! The number of transcontinental crossings, started with emotional goodbyes, stands in contrast today, where you can be in contact with anyone around the world with the push of a button. As a history buff, I love the story’s construct of a historian digging through his grandmother’s papers to reconstruct her life and in the building, tells a tale of the West with which I was not familiar.
The hardships they endured, the perseverance required and the community they needed to build to survive make for an interesting tale. Peeling back layers of his grandparents’ lives and marriage reveal complicated people made more complicated by their geography and the Victorian era in which the were living.
The hardships they endured, the perseverance required and the community they needed to build to survive make for an interesting tale. Peeling back layers of his grandparents’ lives and marriage reveal complicated people made more complicated by their geography and the Victorian era in which the were living.