“Difficult to understand why this book received the National Book Award. Yet, there's something about Stegner's writing that pulls the reader into the story. The framework of the novel is much like "Angle of Respose". A retired literary agent reexamines his life as a spectator by re-reading a diary written twenty years earlier, during a period of time when he became a participant in life. As always with Stegner's work, there's more to mull over than appears on the surface, with an...”

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