Beautifully crafted, wise and moving, Crossing to Safety is a book for
grown-ups. It’s the story of four lives, two couples, following them from their
twenties as beginning academics in the depression through 40 years of trials
and joys. And despite covering forty years and moving from Wisconsin to Vermont
to Italy and back again, the entire book actually takes place in just one day.
Wallace Stegner wrote Crossing to Safety
late in his career and it is a quiet, compassionate, powerful look at
friendship, marriage, youthful optimism and hard-won wisdom.
“How do you make a book that anyone will
read out of lives as quiet as these?” the narrator Larry Morgan asks. You make
it just like this.
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