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    Crossing to Safety
    Crossing to Safety
    Crossing to Safety
    Audiobook12 hours

    Crossing to Safety

    Written by Wallace Stegner

    Narrated by Richard Poe

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    About this audiobook

    One of the finest American authors of the 20th century, Wallace Stegner compiled an impressive collection of accolades during his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a National Book Award, and three O. Henry Awards. His final novel, Crossing to Safety is the quiet yet stirring tale of two couples that meet during the Great Depression and form a lifelong bond. "This is a wonderfully rich, warm, and affecting book."-Library Journal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 28, 2009
    ISBN9781440718465
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    • 4/5
      Beautifully written. A very engaging story. It encourages Introspection as it draws together emotional life with nature and culture. Highly recommended
    • 5/5
      Language, relates to universal human traits. Narrator was very good.
    • 4/5
      Beautiful writing, historical account of relationships(spouse and friends) between 1930’s and 1980’s. The account of academics and their real lives.
    • 4/5
      I became interested in how the true story compared to this fictionalized version, and was really glad to find out that this particular book wasn’t published until after Philip and Margaret, “Phil” and “Peg” (Sid and Charity) had passed away, and that despite his predictions in the novel, his wife survived him. The writing is very admirable and realistic to me, and I’m not surprised by Stegner’s seeming inability to see into the minds of the people surrounding him, because that’s how it actually is, but I was a little disappointed that he either couldn’t or chose not to render them as fully human and equal to himself. Just another facet of realism? Possibly that much about his approach is also to be true. Can any of us be more honest with ourselves? I know of many a great writer able to fully develop many characters at once in a great story, but so far, in my microscopic and random foray into world literature, only in pure fiction have I found that. All I can really say with accuracy, is that I long to see into the minds of everyone who is present and propelling the narrative of books I’m reading, not just an intricate series of assumptions the narrator wants to make about them. And in this book, that’s what the narrative is constructed of. But the story held my attention to the end. And at least some of his observations rang very true to me.