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The story of a friendship between two couples. Joys, sorrows and adventures experty described.
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As with much of Stegner's work this is a magnificently told story of relationships and characters relationship with place.
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This a wonderful deep book about love and relationships written in a past time of positive outlooks and good people
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This is lovely book about a young couple beginning in the Depression. He is an academic, and gets a job teaching in a small college in WI. There they meet a couple and become friends for life. The story concerns the friendship between the two couples, and how this friendship affects their lives.
Stegner is a wonderful writer, and you are really in the story with these characters. It really is about LIFE...all the ups and downs included.
I recommend this book for lovers of good literature, and a good story.
Stegner is a wonderful writer, and you are really in the story with these characters. It really is about LIFE...all the ups and downs included.
I recommend this book for lovers of good literature, and a good story.
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"A grand, rich, beautifully written novel about a long, not always easy friendship between two couples.
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Wallace Stegner was a fantastic writer.
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This book is why I love book club - I never would have picked this on my own, and I would have missed out on an absolute gem.
This is something of a "book about nothing." It is simply a love letter about friendship in all of its glory and its grief.
Stegner has a true gift for storytelling and character development. He can turn a phrase with the subtlety of a master and he is able to turn the mundane of life into something quietly profound.
This is a painfully beautiful story about a once-in-a-lifetime friendship between two couples that started during The Great Depression. It is both a book to treasure and a book to share. I'm so glad that I didn't miss out on this wonderful reading experience.
This is something of a "book about nothing." It is simply a love letter about friendship in all of its glory and its grief.
Stegner has a true gift for storytelling and character development. He can turn a phrase with the subtlety of a master and he is able to turn the mundane of life into something quietly profound.
This is a painfully beautiful story about a once-in-a-lifetime friendship between two couples that started during The Great Depression. It is both a book to treasure and a book to share. I'm so glad that I didn't miss out on this wonderful reading experience.
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This is a heart warming story
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A little sad, but well written
This book is a gift to everyone who is a friend or has a friend - basically everyone. It is the beautifully-written story of two couples who remain close despite changes in physical location and life-altering situations. Wallace Stegner writes of each couple's unfailing courtesy toward and compassion for the other in truly memorabe prose. The reader is able clearly to see each person individually, as part of a couple and as a member of their quartet. I truly hated to see this book end and I already look forward to reading it again and again.