One of the best books I have ever read

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	• Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics) Wallace Earle Stegner Modern Library, 2002 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 108 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Crossing To Safety

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner is one of the finest books my book club has read. The beauty of the prose along with an engaging story had my enjoyment level up there. I definitely want to read this prize winning author's other works. I can't understand where his catalog of fiction has been all my life.

Enticing story of friendship -

I couldn't put this book down. However, my complaint is the self-indulgent writing of Stegner's - he always seems to be winking at himself as he describes certain scenarios, attitudes of characters, etc..

It gets to be tiring... and the writing style is totally outdated! Not timeless!

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One of the best books I have ever read

Wallace Stegner is simply one of our finest writers and this book is great on so many levels. Remarkably little happens in the story, and yet he brings you so close to the characters that you can't take your eyes off of them. He won the Pulitzer for "Angle of Repose," which is also great, but I found Safety a far speedier, enjoyable read. If you have an intellectual bone in your head, you cannot go wrong with this.

Life Affirming

I thought this book was an affirmation of life and the joys it offers, all around us and within us. This writing has a quality that is very rare today, naturea and its changing landscapes also has a life of its own in the prose. The friendships between the two couples are beautifully mapped and the shifts between past and present are smooth and seamless, not confusing in the slightest. Aunt Emily was a fabulous character and I could happily read a whole book just about her life!
I'm so glad this is only my first Wallace Stegner book!

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Fabulous!

Beautifully written, provocative, and enduring. Hated for it to end. Wanted to reread it immediately.

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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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