《安息角》是華萊士·斯泰格納的代錶作，是其寫作生涯中皇冠上的明珠。作者正是憑藉這部小說獲得1972年的普利策小說奬。這是一本關於婚姻的書，同時也是一本關於寬恕的書。20世紀100部最佳英語小說第82名。

Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery -- personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family. Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward's investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. The result is a deeply moving novel that, through the prism of one family, illuminates the American present against the fascinating background of its past.