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Review title: The past in the present.
Product review: Certainly the most famous and best received novel of Wallace Stegner's lengthy career, the 1971 Pulitzer Prize winning "Angle of Repose" is a novel about the importance and pertinance of familial ancestry. The cranky narrator blurts out at one point, "If you want to be a literary critic, you have to read what's there." This advice is exactly what he endeavors to do throughout the novel, and exactly what close readers can do as they explore the intricacies of this well written and carefully constructed text. The novel's settings are both beautiful and realistic depictions of the American west: including the development of its frontier and the sweat, hardship, and love that went into creating it. Though taught at the Graduate level of many colleges and universities, "Angle of Repose" is accessable to readers at many levels and teaches by example how the past can indirectly influence the present, and in the case of our narrator, influence the future as well
