"I wanted to read Angle of Repose, actually in part because of the cover. The photo on the cover is - or the Penguins Classic copy that I had - is this view out of a little window of this steep, rocky mountainside that looks like somewhere in the Rockies. I've just always liked the Rockies; I've been out to Colorado a lot.
Angle of Repose is about a kind of an aging old man who's in a wheelchair. His name is Lyman Ward, he's a former college professor; and he has moved back to this house in Grass Valley, California, and is studying his grandmother, who is this amazing woman who came out to the west.
I read the book really slowly, and I appreciated a lot of different parts of the book. It wasn't a book that I wanted to rush through and get to the end to find out what happened. He discusses so much in his entire family history and his own history and his relationship with his son that it's amazing. There's a bunch of - it covers so much. I recommend this book to everybody. I always recommend it to my friends. It was - it's a lot more mature of a book than I normally read. I would give Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner five out of five stars. It's one of my favorite books; I think it covers so much. There's just a lot of history, a lot of relationships, how relationships between family and between married couples and work. I think there's so much to the book, and I loved it."
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