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tangodiva 's review for:
Crossing to Safety
by Wallace Stegner
I read this on a whim when a former co-worker (in the sense that he worked in the same building) commented on Facebook he was reading it.
I gave it three stars because it did manage to engross me at some points. I know Stegner's reputation and I admire his clear love for nature and conservancy.
However, this was a book about women and marriage from a man's point of view. And it viewed marriage as a prison in different ways, contrasting the two main couples. I felt the view taken towards both Charity and Sally was one of distaste and pity, respectively. That by turn saddened and angered me.
However, in the end you see that the narrator of all this, Larry, is nothing more than an observer. While he may not understand the way others live their lives, they are living it while he sits back and comments and judges.
Definitely a book to make you think about many things - marriage, indebtedness, being chained to another person by choice or chance, and dying.
I need something light, next.
I gave it three stars because it did manage to engross me at some points. I know Stegner's reputation and I admire his clear love for nature and conservancy.
However, this was a book about women and marriage from a man's point of view. And it viewed marriage as a prison in different ways, contrasting the two main couples. I felt the view taken towards both Charity and Sally was one of distaste and pity, respectively. That by turn saddened and angered me.
However, in the end you see that the narrator of all this, Larry, is nothing more than an observer. While he may not understand the way others live their lives, they are living it while he sits back and comments and judges.
Definitely a book to make you think about many things - marriage, indebtedness, being chained to another person by choice or chance, and dying.
I need something light, next.