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, love...
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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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).[3] Publishers weekly described the novel as is an eloquent and deeply moving meditation on the idealism and spirit of youth, when the world is full of promise, and on the blows and compromises life inevitably inflicts. The narrator, Larry Morgan and his wife Sally settle in to their new home in Madison, Wisconsin, as Larry begins a term teaching creative writing at the university's English department. They soon befriend another couple, Sid and Charity Lang, and learn of Sid's ambition to succeed as a writer. As their careers mature, th... (查看原文)
...those two once again chosse us. In circumstances where snaller spirits might let envy corrode liking, they declare their generous pleasure in our company and good luck. What we felt last night when we fell into a laughing bearhug and fused our frosty breaths outside their door, we feel again on this placid hill. We have been invited into their lives, from which we will never be evicted, or evict ourselves. (查看原文)
0 有用 bunnie 2017-06-28 07:21:05
- 6.27| first half unusually wholesome for an academic novel second half interesting experiences replaced by elusive private thoughts
0 有用 Nine 2020-10-23 16:16:14
作者文笔没问题，但是情节实在太重复了，没完没了的感激和称颂，后面就很无聊。
0 有用 Nine 2020-10-23 16:16:14
作者文笔没问题，但是情节实在太重复了，没完没了的感激和称颂，后面就很无聊。
0 有用 bunnie 2017-06-28 07:21:05
- 6.27| first half unusually wholesome for an academic novel second half interesting experiences replaced by elusive private thoughts