Crossing to Safety Summary
Wallace Stegner

Crossing to Safety Summary

Two young ambitious couples become friends in Madison, Wisconsin, when the two husbands begin their academic careers as professors at the University of Wisconsin in the 1930s. The novel follows their friendship through forty years of career ups-and-downs, health problems, children, successes, and failures.

Sally and Larry Morgan come from the West, and they have no family or money, but Larry has talent and burning ambition. He knows how to set...

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