Crossing to Safety

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A grand, rich, beautifully written novel about a long, not-always-easy friendship between two couples
"A magnificently crafted story of the remarkable friendship between the Langs and Morgans A novel brimming with wisdom on subjects as diverse as writing for money, solid marriages, and academic promotion policies—with page after page of the superb descriptive writing that has been a hallmark of his work from the start and with a marvelous extended family of unforgettable major and minor characters."
—Howard Frank Mosher, The Washmgtm Post Book World
"A superb book Mr. Stegner's success with this story lies precisely in the absence of all these currently popular subject matters and the presence of quiet reexamination of what, close to the end, seems to have made life not only worth living but happy and almost fulfilled. Mr. Stegner has huilt a convincing narrative, has made survival a grace rather than a grim necessity, and enduring, tried love the test and proof of a good... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A grand, rich, beautifully written novel about a long, not-always-easy friendship between two couples
"A magnificently crafted story of the remarkable friendship between the Langs and Morgans A novel brimming with wisdom on subjects as diverse as writing for money, solid marriages, and academic promotion policies—with page after page of the superb descriptive writing that has been a hallmark of his work from the start and with a marvelous extended family of unforgettable major and minor characters."
—Howard Frank Mosher, The Washmgtm Post Book World
"A superb book Mr. Stegner's success with this story lies precisely in the absence of all these currently popular subject matters and the presence of quiet reexamination of what, close to the end, seems to have made life not only worth living but happy and almost fulfilled. Mr. Stegner has huilt a convincing narrative, has made survival a grace rather than a grim necessity, and enduring, tried love the test and proof of a good life. Nothing in these lives is lost or wasted, suffering becomes an enriching benediction, and life itself a luminous experience." —Doris Grumbach, The. New York Times Book Review
"" Crossing to Safety must be the crowning achievement of Wallace Stegner's long and illustrious career as writer and teacher." —Richmond TimesRecordNews
Cover design by Melissa Jacoby Cover photograph by Richard Brown Vissza