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Angle of Repose
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Angle of ReposeAngle of Repose

Angle of Repose is a 1972 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Wallace Stegner about a wheelchair-using historian, Lyman Ward, who has lost connection with his son and living family and decides to write about his frontier-era grandparents. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972. The novel is directly based on the letters of Mary Hallock Foote, later published as A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West.
Stegner's use of substantial passages of Foote's actual letters as correspondence from his fictional character Susan Burling Ward caused a continuing controversy.
 
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The Civil War - A Narrative - 3 Volumes
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The Civil War - A Narrative - 3 VolumesThe Civil War - A Narrative - 3 Volumes

The Civil War: A Narrative is a powerfully dramatic, highly literate three-volume account of the war that preserved the unity of the United States of America. It took Shelby Foote over 16 years and 2,800 pages to complete his masterpiece. The Civil War: A Narrative is a very long journey, but one also very well worth taking.
 
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