5/22/2023 0 Comments Crossing to safety![]() ![]() All this may sound a little dull but for me, it’s a quiet masterpiece, notable for the elegance of Stegner’s expression and its evocation of a friendship which manages to weather the strains put upon it by changing circumstances. ![]() The story of this friendship, which will see the couples through happiness and tragedy, triumphs and tribulations, is told through Larry’s recollections. Charity and Sally are both pregnant while Sid and Larry are colleagues in the local university’s English department. The Langs meet the Morgans during the Great Depression. Written when he was seventy-eight, Wallace Stegner’s semi-autobiographical novel is about two couples and their lifelong friendship. ![]() I’ve a feeling that it was Jacqui at JacquiWine’s Journal who put me on to it. This is the latest in a series of occasional posts featuring books I read years ago about which I was wildly enthusiastic at the time, wanting to press a copy in as many hands as I could.Ĭrossing to Safety is one of those novels I came across in my early blogging days when I was getting to know which bloggers I’d like to follow. ![]()
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