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

Crossing to Safety Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

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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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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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As I am waiting for Angle of Repose to arrive for me to read, I started going back through CTS and skimming through it. These years later the passage that has remained closest to me is this:You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is pured on him. And right

5★ againCharity is tall and striking; Sally smaller, darker, quieter. One dazzles, the other warms.They are half of the foursome completed by Sid and Larry, their husbands. The four of them meet in their twenties, become fast friends, though from very different backgrounds, and bump up against each other on and off for the rest of their lives. Their bond is tested from time to time, by distance and circumstance, but remains unbroken.Larry Morgan narrates the story, beginning near the end, when

Crossing to safety was a beautiful book about relationships, how they wax and wane, and friendships that last for a lifetime. The setting was idyllic, I felt as if I was in the story. One of the best books I have ever read.

Since I finished reading this book about three weeks ago, I've thought a lot about what its central subject actually is. The friendship between two married couples, with different expectations and backgrounds, over decades is certainly there. But in a sense it feels as though that is the surface, and that there are deeper, less obviously expressed themes throughout the book.One, it seems to me, is a slow examination of what makes up charity. The dominant female character is Charity, wife of easy

Life is a process of gradually narrowing choices. You learn this early in life, often when playing sports. You know youre not going to be a Major League Baseball player because you cant hit a curveball, or a fast fastball, or, in fact, the ball off a tee. Later, in school, you discover that your eyesight and fear of heights is going to keep you from being a jet pilot; and that your biology score is going to keep you from being a doctor, or passing biology; and that you arent ever going to be a

This is one of my FAVORITE BOOKS.....'ever'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"Angle of Repose" (also by Wallace Stegner), is also one of my favorite top 10 books --(this is the first time I can say ---I 'really'--'really' can claim to have read TWO books by an author that will be forever LIFE-TIME-FAVORITES!!!!!I'm only sorry I waited this long to read "Crossing to Safety". (its timeless).Beautifully written --Vivid-engaging-(story-telling at its best).Another 'GREAT' book club discussion book (why hasn't our

Im not going to lie (Im really bad at it) but Ill have to admit I only heard about Wallace Stegner last year. At the time Id read a very positive and passionate review and that was enough for me to know I had to read it. And the title, oh my goodness, isnt it simply wonderful? When I started the book a few days ago I basically knew nothing about it besides the fact that this was going to be a story about two couples who become friends. Today, Im ready to rave about it to the whole world. Wallace