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

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It makes a lot of difference if nothing happens in four days or if nothing happens in half a century.

If you’re in the mood for a contemplative, tightly and exquisitely written novel, reach for Crossing to Safety. As their careers mature, they take different paths, but they spend much of their time together on summer vacations in the small Vermont town where Charity's family has been coming for decades. She never stops and loses patience with those who don't toe the line or keep up, an impossible task. In a scene reminiscent of an episode of Frasier, Larry and his wife are beguiled by like-minded aesthetes, the Langs, who invite them to their fancy schmantzy dinner party.

By the time the novel reaches its third act, the jumps have become so pronounced that it weakens the story.

When you remember today, what will you remember best, the spring countryside, and the company of friends, or Piero’s Christ and that workman with the mangled hand?It made me think that part of the wisdom we gain as we age comes in recognizing what truly matters: the people around us and the ways we connect.

En lugar seguro” es una reflexión sobre la escritura y el arte, una exaltación de la cultura y la naturaleza, un precioso canto a la amistad, al poder de la voluntad, al trabajo. This work by Whispering Gums is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3. Their very human dynamics will ring many readers' bells because this semi-autobiographical tale gives us the sense of being allowed to pry into the highs and lows of people’s personal lives over a period of several decades. 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.On the one hand I needed two weeks for 280 pages which is not a good sign, on the other hand I enjoyed reading it a lot.

In Crossing to Safety, Stegner explores the mysteries of friendship, and it extends Stegner's distinguished body of work that had already earned him a Pulitzer Prize (for 1971's Angle of Repose) [2] and the National Book Award (for 1976's The Spectator Bird). 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.Poor Sally is made to suffer not only a terrible child birth, but polio that leaves her crippled and in irons. Wallace Stegner is one of our great national treasures, and Crossing to Safety is a very rich read, a surprising look at the friendship between two couples, four friends. The hunt for the Holy Grail of tenure and discussions of suitable academic work that will get them tenure is one theme - poetry? In between, Sid and Charity’s first time together at her family retreat in northern Vermont, Battell Pond, is like a stroll through the first garden.