Crossing to Safety
$22.95
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
29 January 2014
Summary
By the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Angle of Repose
A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of the finest American writers of the late 20th century.
When two young couples meet for the first time during the Great Depression, they quickly find they have much in common—Charity Lang and Sally Morgan are both pregnant, while their husbands Sid and Larry both have jobs in the English de…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141394954 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141394951 |
| Author: | Wallace Stegner, Jane Smiley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 29 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter (1937); A Shooting Star (1961); Angle of Repose (Pulitzer Prize, 1971); The Spectator Bird (National Book Award, 1977); and Recapitulation (1979). Three of his short stories have won O.Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements. His collected stories were published in 1990.
Jane Smiley is the author of many novels and works of non-fiction, including, most recently, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel, about the history and anatomy of the novel. Her most recent novel is Good Faith. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for A Thousand Acres and was shortlisted for The Orange Prize in 2001 for Horse Heaven.
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