Crossing to Safety (Modern Library) (Modern Library Classics)

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I found Charity obnoxious which is a tribute to the author’s ability to project this character type. And despite the fact that this is told from Larry’s point of view, it is the Langs that sit in the spotlight.

The warm shudders I experienced as I sank into each night with this book on my lap, the stunning imagery of diminished time against an unchanging landscape, and the quiet story of academic couples faced with tragedy, makes me certain that Stegner will be an author I grow with this year. His people are academics, so there is a lot of conversation around poetry, literature, history, culture – all of which they love, but if it’s unfamiliar to you, it doesn’t matter. Not settling, not feeling trapped or resentful, but just learning to be OK with your life and appreciating what you have instead of wasting your life obsessing over what you don't have. I’m not going to lie (I’m really bad at it) but I’ll have to admit I only heard about Wallace Stegner last year.

some parts of this story were so heartbreaking for me that they had me crying long after the story was done!

Dónde ésta la vida de lujos y despilfarros ostentosos, la violencia, el sexo retorcido, los deseos de muerte? T He is the hard-worker, always writing, articles, stories, a novel, using every spare minute to put words to paper.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. One family is much wealthier than the other and helps the other couple out with a loan that they pay off over time. All I wished for them was exactly what I wish for myself; that we all could get to a place and time in this crazy life where we’d finally feel like we were Crossing to Safety.

I also highly recommend that everyone gift themselves with at least a couple of Wallace Stegner’s novels this year if at all possible. Question 7 | Richard Flanagan (3) – This Reading Life on Monday musings on Australian literature: The stories we want or, is it, need? He, through Larry, recognises “the miserable failure of the law of nature to conform to the dream of man” but this is no breast-beating “woe-is-me” novel.la amistad) Es una relación que no tiene una forma establecida, no hay lazos ni obligaciones, como en el matrimonio o la familia, y no son la ley, ni la propiedad, ni la sangre quienes sostienen la unión; no hay en ella más adhesivo que el aprecio mutuo. Oh, and the women in this book are given equal billing to the men, which is always a good thing in my view. Dónde la velocidad, el ruido, la fealdad, todo lo que nos hace quienes somos y nos hace reconocernos en la literatura?