These events are narrated by Lyman Ward, a wheelchair-bound historian who recounts his mining-engineer grandfather's life in the frontier west in -- for 10 points -- what novel by Wallace Stegner whose name sounds like a comfortable adjustment setting for a La-Z-Boy.
Its sections are named for settings including "The Canyon," "Leadville" and "Michoacan," that last being the only one in which the principal female character is happy. In another location, she plants a rose garden, but her husband Oliver finds out about her infidelity and uproots it. These events are narrated by Lyman Ward, a wheelchair-bound historian who recounts his mining-engineer grandfather's life in the frontier west in -- for 10 points -- what novel by Wallace Stegner whose name sounds like a comfortable adjustment setting for a La-Z-Boy.
Its sections are named for settings including "The Canyon," "Leadville" and "Michoacan," that last being the only one in which the principal female character is happy.
Angle of Repose