![]() Finally, it channels his experience as a novelist because, well, it's simply an awesome book. Second, it channels his experience as an environmentalist, as the novel is steeped in beautiful natural imagery and sophisticated environmentalist views. First, it channels his experience as a historian, as it covers-in detail-roughly 100 years of American history. In other words, he's exactly the kind of dude you're hoping to find on Tinder.Īngle of Repose actually blends all three of Stegner's passions. Stegner was actually a renaissance man in his time: he was a historian, novelist, and one of the founders of the American environmentalist movement. Published in 1971, Angle of Repose is widely seen as Stegner's masterpiece-the thing won a gosh-darned Pulitzer Prize, after all. What happens when you cross a cowboy movie, a book on American history, and the nastiest episode of The Jerry Springer Show you've ever seen? Well, you get Wallace Stegner's novel Angle of Repose, of course. ![]()
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