![]() Some would argue that this falls into an ethical gray area, and perhaps the case could be argued from that position (and has been). Angle of Repose is, in a word, plagiarized. But this is only if you read the book as an isolated object and know nothing about the author and his source material.īecause to put it quite bluntly, Wallace Stegner lifted the majority of his story wholesale from (and without giving credit to) the then-unpublished memoirs of Mary Hallock Foote. Without context, Angle of Repose, which won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is an interesting, well-written, and thought-provoking-if rather problematic-novel. To consider this book out of context is only to get fractions of the whole picture. ![]()
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