5/26/2023 0 Comments Wallace stegner crossing to safety![]() ![]() It’s a novel about “a long, not-always-easy friendship between two couples,” the back jacket of my first-edition paperback states. ![]() This was just as I was returning to my childhood writing ambitions, and Crossing to Safety was the book I wished I were author enough to write, the book written in just the literary style I hoped someday to master. I recall reading it three times over, in quick succession. ![]() I first discovered this book early in the early 1990s. I have the same edition on my bookshelf at home, and once home, I picked up where I left off. I began reading it again, and noted the page on which I stopped when departure day came. While staying at Windhorse Farm leading a writing retreat in Nova Scotia in May, I ran into an old friend- Crossing to Safety,Wallace Stegner’s 1987 novel and one of my favorite books of all time. ![]()
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