Originally published in the United States by Doubleday and Co., New York, in 1971.
Summary
Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease. Amid the chaos of 1970s counterculture he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother. In discovering her story he excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him.