Crossing to safety king county library system overdrive. Dec 27, 20 wallace earle stegner, the spectator bird penguin classics as early as 1944, sinclair lewis himself hailed stegner as, one of the most important novelists in america but the national book. Introduction by terry tempest williams afterword by t. 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 1971s angle of repose and the national book award for. Crossing to safety the free library of philadelphia. Stegner takes a long look backat four decades of a foursomes lifein a novel that at moments is beguiling, though at others it labors for its theme. I had read it before about seven years ago a library copy recommended to me by a trustworthy colleague who expressed such ardent longing and love for it that there was. Crossing to safety is a novel about the intertwined lives of two couples. Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides for challenging works of literature.
Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Stegner renders the occasional penalties of closeness and loyalty, the occasional perils of asking forgiveness. Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. The author of this delightful book, one of americas most distinguished writers, states that it is a history, a story, and a memory of the last plains frontier, and it follows this subtitle exactly. Crossing to safety modern library classics kindle edition by stegner, wallace, williams, terry tempest. Crossing to safety penguin modern classics wallace stegner, jane smiley isbn.
Beyond the hundredth meridian flagstaff citycoconino. Its his most accessible book, a warm, charming story that allows the reader to familiarize herself with his signature style of one chapter past tense, one chapter present tense, one chapter past tense, etc. Crossing to safety by wallace stegner overdrive rakuten. In crossing to safety, stegner explores the mysteries of friendship, and it extends stegners distinguished body of work that had already earned him a pulitzer prize for 1971s angle of repose and the national book award for. Crossing to safety by wallace stegner pagesofjulia. Dec 05, 2008 not only a book of a lifetime, crossing to safety is a book that comes at the end of a long lifetime of writing.
This 56page guide for crossing to safety by wallace stegner includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 22 chapters, as well as several more indepth sections of expertwritten literary analysis. Feb 26, 2011 wallace stegners quiet novel crossing to safety stands as a refreshing retreat in my readers history. Crossing to safety by wallace stegner as an english major, no one ever made me read any wallace stegner, which is a shame, writes listener sylvia about the novelist. Crossing to safety is an oldfashioned novel about a traditional subject, friendship, and what it means in the lives of four people who experience it. All his writings are informed by a deep sense of the american experience and the potential, which he termed the geography of promise, that the west symbolizes. Wallace stegner was a novelist and shortstory writer whose work celebrated the american west and won him the countrys highest literary awards. Crossing to safety metropolitan library system overdrive. The collection features multiple items, including stegners manuscripts and. It gained broad literary acclaim and commercial popularity.
Crossing to safety modern library classics wallace. The son of scandinavian immigrants, he traveled with his parents and brother all over the west to north dakota, washington, saskatchewan, montana, and wyomingbefore settling in salt lake city in 1921. Since then ive read many more books by him, and this is still my favorite stegner. Crossing to safety by wallace stegner fab book club. More generally, it is about the various ways we express the search for meaning, about gradually lost causes, about vulnerability and kindness, about the complicated dependencies of marriage, about coming of age, slowly, over the course of a lifetime. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading crossing to safety modern library classics. Apr 26, 2019 i would start with crossing to safety. Crossing to safety wallace stegner introduction by molly lundquist like other famous authors who claimed to write small jane austens miniatures on a little bit of ivory and william faulkners postage stamp of native soil, wallace stegner says of crossing to safety that he was trying to make very small noises and to make them thoughtful. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Gregory thompson talked about the wallace stegner collection at the university of utahs j. Not only a book of a lifetime, crossing to safety is a book that comes at the end of a long lifetime of writing.
Stegner brilliantly brings to life america as it changes, grows older, evolves, and how the langs and the morgans do the same. Crossing to safety modern library classics paperback april 9, 2002. Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, i surface. Crossing to safety by wallace stegner penguin books. Each stumbles through life supported by the others, yet in that support, mr. It made a deep impression that has lingered over the years. Download it once and read it on your kindle device.
Wallace stegners novel about a decadeslong friendship between two couples is just as rewarding on its 25th anniversary as it was when first. Crossing to safety the ohio digital library overdrive. Crossing to safety modern library classics wallace stegner, t. Crossing to safety chronicles the 35year friendship amicitia between two couples, which started in madison, wisconsin, in 1937. Crossing to safety is a 1987 semiautobiographical novel by the dean of western writers, wallace stegner. Larry morgan and his wife sally are young westerners who, one day in depressionpoor 1937, arrive in madison, wisconsin, where larry is to take a oneyear teaching post at the university of wisconsin. Apr 09, 2020 wallace stegner, american author of fiction and historical nonfiction set mainly in the western united states. Crossing to safety by wallace stegner librarything. Crossing to safety modern library classics kindle edition. Wallace stegner is currently considered a single author. Blending fact with fiction, wallace stegner retells the story of joe hillthe wobbly bard who became the stuff of legend when, in 1915, he was executed for the alleged murder of a salt lake city businessman. Crossing to safety modern library classics wallace earle stegner on.
Charity and sid lang are a welltodo couple, with two children, from the east, while larry who narrates the story and sally morgan are a far poorer couple from the west. Apr 07, 2014 crossing to safety by wallace stegner posted on april 7, 2014 by pagesofjulia in the fine tradition of for whom the bell tolls and of mice and men, crossing to safety borrows its title from poetry in this case, robert frost. Crossing to safety midcontinent public library overdrive. Wallace earle stegner february 18, 1909 april, 1993 was an american novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called the dean of western writers. Crossing to safety cuyahoga county public library overdrive.
Buy crossing to safety penguin modern classics by stegner, wallace, smiley, jane from amazons fiction books store. Wallace stegner was born in 1909 in lake mills, iowa. Wallace stegner, who also wrote short stories, essays, biographies and histories. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through pilgrims progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. An incandescent novel about love, marriage, aging and being painfully, exuberantly alive. Wallace stegner primary author only author division. Update july 11, 2019 i first read crossing to safety, my first book by wallace stegner, in august 20. Crossing to safety modern library classics kindle edition by.
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