Angle of ReposeAngle of Repose is an iconic novel of the American West a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of the past. In 1960s America, Lyman Ward, a retired history professor and author of books about the Western frontier, returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Abandoned by his wife and wheelchair bound with a debilitating bone disease, Ward embarks on a search of monumental proportions to rediscover the life story of his