Angle Of Repose Book Characters. The main characters are mining engineer oliver ward, his wife susan b. Ward, who is a writer and illustrator, and their descendant, lyman ward, who narrates the story as a retired historian living in the california gold country.
Ward, who is a writer and illustrator, and their descendant, lyman ward, who narrates the story as a retired historian living in the california gold country. She was an artist and writer. The main characters of this fiction, historical story are lyman ward, susan burling ward.
It won the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1972.
Susan burling ward is lyman’s grandmother. The kids (ollie, betsy, and agnes ward) ed and ada hawkes; The title of the book comes from a geological term for the diminished incline that will halt a movement; Lyman is writing a book about his grandparents to keep his mind off his divorce and the loss of his leg.