5/24/2023 0 Comments Author of angle of reposeShe leaves New York’s literary society to join her husband Oliver Ward in the West, where he pursues a faltering career as a mining and irrigation engineer. She is a beautiful and talented Victorian gentlewoman artist. The narrator is Lyman Ward, a divorced, wheelchair-bound retired professor working on a biography of his grandmother, Susan Burling. The combination makes Angle of Repose a compelling study of character, relations, and contrasting epochs in American life. This complexity creates space for extraordinary levels of nuance and doubt about the narrator's reliability. Yet, at the same time, without being obscure or difficult, the novel’s structure is necessarily complex. Its prose is pitch-perfect, old-fashioned, past tense, refreshingly lucid, and free of voguish artifices that deflect attention from the narrative to the author.
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