A review by ddvw
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

2.0

This is a book with lofty goals, chronicling the lives of two couples from the time they meet at the University of Wisconsin in the 1920's when the husbands, Sid and Larry, are colleagues in the English Department. The book follows pregnancies, children, job loss, promotions, illness, and, always at the forefront, the complexities of deep friendships and married life. I kept waiting for something to happen, while expecting nothing to happen, other than the things that make up a life. Not to say that nothing happened, but there wasn't one event to focus on because it covered 40 plus years of people's lives.
I had a major problem with the way the author dealt with a character's cancer diagnosis, which soured the whole book for me. I didn't love the book to begin with, but that really affected my rating of the book.