5/30/2023 0 Comments Author of angle of reposeIt isn’t a book anyway, it’s just a kind of investigation into a life.Īngle of Repose - that is, the novel that Wallace Stegner has written, not (necessarily) the non-book Lyman Ward contemplates - is exactly that, an investigation into a life. (Actually, it turns out that he dreamed that he was talking to his ex-wife, but the whole episode, including this conversation, is so unremarkably plausible as a continuation of the story he’s been recounting that even he has to “persuade that it was all a dream” - an unexpected variation on the novel’s theme of blurred lines between fact and fiction.) Asked its title, he offers up the ones he has been considering - including Angle of Repose, a moment that bounces us deftly into metafiction - and then shrugs off the question:įorget it. Near the end of Angle of Repose its narrator, retired historian Lyman Ward, is talking with his ex-wife about the book he’s been working on.
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