![]() ![]() When they meet the Langs, their lives seem close to ideal. "In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up," Larry reflects years later, as of course it is if, like the young Morgans, you are also in love and full of hope. The friendship began 34 years ago in Madison, Wisconsin, where Larry and Sid, both fresh out of graduate school, landed teaching jobs at the local university. ![]() Like much of his previous fiction, however, Crossing to Safety ranges freely over broad swatches of 20th-century American history and geography. ![]() Wallace Stegner's magnificently-crafted, heart-wrenching story of the remarkable friendship between the Langs and Morgans is framed by a single dramatic day in New England. This summer they have been summoned back to Vermont at the urgent request of Charity, who is desperately ill and has only a few days left to live. Here, over the past three and a half decades, the Morgans have spent many of the happiest times of their lives as "adopted members" of the Lang family. ![]() Larry and Sally Morgan, now in their sixties, have just returned to the lakeside home of their closest friends, Sid and Charity Lang. IT IS the summer of 1972 in a remote and lovely corner of northern Vermont, just south of the Canadian border. CROSSING TO SAFETY By Wallace Stegner Random House. ![]()
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