In discovering her story he excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him. Amid the chaos of 1970s counterculture he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before. Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease and dependant on others for his every need. Book Synopsis An American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner-a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegners masterpiece. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. About the Book Stegners Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family.
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