Many of the characters in this work have connections to U.C. Berkeley, including Shelley, who has dropped out of Berkeley and has a fight with Ada about who will get to give a bath. This work was based partially on the papers of Mary Hallock Foote, which its author helped to acquire while professor at Stanford. Events in this work include the drowning of Agnes as well as the suicide of Frank Sargent, and the main character spends much of his time perusing the letters from his grandmother, Susan Ward, to her friend Augusta while being confined to a wheelchair after having his leg amputated. For ten points, identify this novel containing the re
Many of the characters in this work have connections to U.C. Berkeley, including Shelley, who has dropped out of Berkeley and has a fight with Ada about who will get to give a bath. This work was based partially on the papers of Mary Hallock Foote, which its author helped to acquire while professor at Stanford. Events in this work include the drowning of Agnes as well as the suicide of Frank Sargent, and the main character spends much of his time perusing the letters from his grandmother, Susan Ward, to her friend Augusta while being confined to a wheelchair after having his leg amputated. For ten points, identify this novel containing the reminiscences of Lyman Ward, written by Wallace Stegner.
Many of the characters in this work have connections to U.C. Berkeley, including Shelley, who has dropped out of Berkeley and has a fight with Ada about who will get to give a bath.
Angle of Repose