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Wallace Stegner

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

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Original Title:	Crossing to Safety
ISBN:	037575931X (ISBN13: 9780375759314)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Sally Morgan, Larry Morgan, Sid Lang, Charity Lang
Setting:	Pennsylvania(United States) New Mexico(United States) Wisconsin(United States) …more Vermont(United States) …less
Literary Awards:	National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1987), Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2009)

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Called a "magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage.

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Title	:	Crossing to Safety
Author	:	Wallace Stegner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	April 9th 2002 by Modern Library (first published 1987)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literary Fiction. Book Club. Novels

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I bought this back when I saw it was included in the book club for Modern Mrs. Darcy, a book club I am not a part of because I don't think you should pay money to belong to a book club, but I do pay attention to what they read.This is another "classic" novel of 20th century literature where I had neither read the book itself nor the author. It focuses on the friendship between two couples, where both men are professors and writers and the women have other stuff going on. How hard is it to keep

Books like this are why I read. Despite some dark passages, its a delight to read and Im adding it as one of my all-time favorites.The story follows two couples through life. Its an academic novel in a sense both men start out as English professors at the University of Wisconsin in the difficult years of the late 1930s the end of the Depression, heading into WW II. The hunt for the Holy Grail of tenure and discussions of suitable academic work that will get tenure is one theme - poetry?

"Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases" Wallace StegnerAs with A Gentleman in Moscow and The Heart's Invisible Furies, the inescapable popularity of this book on Goodreads was the white flash of a rabbit's tail that first caught my eye. Then as I dipped into the lavish reviews, it became the godlike voice that boomed at me through thunder

This is my first book by this author and I was driven to read it by its wonderful title (my next book of his will be Angle of Repose for the same reason) and its enormous popularity. Not necessarily the best of reasons but I was happy with the result.I doubt if anyone would argue that Stegner writes beautifully. This is the kind of prose you have to read slowly and carefully in order not to miss a thing. The story tells of several decades of friendship between two married couples describing the

Oh, my heart, what a novel.I'm incredulous that this novel is not up there among the best novels of the 20th century . I only heard of Stegner last year.I can't remember ever reading a novel about a friendship between two grown-up couples. Such friendships are rare. Lots of things have to align for that to happen, besides proximity, compatibility between four people, and the kids, a similar socio-economic standing, political and intellectual similarities.Written in the 1980s, this is a novel

The narrator of this novel, Larry Morgan, at one point says to his wife, But if Im going to set the literary world on fire, the only way to do it is to rub one word against the other. Not only did Wallace Stegner likely set the literary world on fire with this book, he set me on fire! Can you imagine reading an entire book about the long friendship between two couples and being left gasping at the end, longing for more?The characters in this book (primarily Larry and his wife Sally, and their

A Tuning Fork for Epiphanies in the OrdinaryI did not expect too much from this novel, being no big fan of Stegner's most-recognized novels, Angle of Repose (thee and thou and thy and thine began to crawl my spine) and the uninspiring The Spectator Bird. I was caught off guard then, by how deeply I was stirred by Stegner's semi-autobiographical novel of a close, long-term friendship between two married couples, set in Wisconsin and New England. Stegner composed a brilliant life contrast: the