Wallace Stegner wrote novels, short fiction and non-fiction about the American West, migration, landscape, family and the long consequences of personal choices. Angle of Repose follows retired historian Lyman Ward as he reconstructs the life of his grandmother Susan Burling Ward through letters and family records, linking his own isolation with the marriages, ambitions and disappointments of an earlier western generation. Crossing to Safety centres on the long friendship between two academic couples and the changes that test their loyalties over decades. Stegner also wrote extensively about conservation and western history, including Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, a biography of explorer and scientist John Wesley Powell. His prose is reflective and character-led, with landscape functioning as part of social and moral history rather than as scenery alone. His catalogue spans American literary fiction, western literature and environmental non-fiction. Angle of Repose gives the fullest fictional introduction to Stegner, while Beyond the Hundredth Meridian shows the historical and environmental interests behind much of his work. Read more Less
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