As Larry says: 'We straggled into Madison, western orphans, and the Langs adopted us into their numerous, rich, powerful, reassuring tribe.' In a virtuoso scene – one of many – the Morgans find themselves basking in the Langs' golden light while another, less fortunate couple can only glare in envy from the sidelines. Rich and confident as the Langs are not, she almost literally sweeps them off their feet. It is Charity who starts the friendship and who then dictates much of what ensues. At its centre are two couples: the Morgans, Larry and his angelic wife Sally and the Langs, the weak but charming Sid, and the vibrant and impossibly bossy Charity.

The story, as related by the aged Larry Morgan, is one of marriage and of friendship. Janu4:16pm EXCLUSIVE: Escape Artists just optioned Wallace Stegner’s critically acclaimed novel Crossing To Safety, a semi-autobiographical tome about two academic couples who. A novel based on character that has immense narrative power. It's a miraculous book, written with the wisdom of age but without seeming old. 761 ï»❼alled a âmagnificently crafted story. He was 62 when, in 1971, he won the Pulitzer for Angle of Repose: he was 78 when Crossing to Safety, his last novel before his death, came out. Wallace Stegner, who also wrote short stories, essays, biographies and histories, published his first novel in 1937.

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