Come for wine and appetizers,
stay for girlfriend time and book discussion!
Join fellow book lovers on the fourth Wednesday of each month
for an evening of lively discussion and a glass of wine... or two.
New members are always welcome!
September Book Club
Wednesday, September 24th, 7:00 PM
JEAN LEMKE'S HOME - 1927 Fenton Lane
Crossing to Safety
By Wallace Stegner, 342 pages
It's deceptively simple: two bright young couples meet during the Depression and form an instant and lifelong friendship. "How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these?" Larry Morgan, a successful novelist and the narrator of the story, poses that question many years after he and his wife, Sally, have befriended the vibrant, wealthy, and often troubled Sid and Charity Lang. "Where is the high life, the conspicuous waste, the violence, the kinky sex, the death wish?" It's not here. What is here is just as fascinating, just as compelling, as touching, and as tragic.
Crossing to Safety is about loyalty and survival in its most everyday form--the need to create bonds and the urge to tear them apart. Thirty-four years after their first meeting, when Larry and Sally are called back to the Langs' summer home in Vermont, it's as if for a final showdown. How has this friendship defined them? What is its legacy? Stegner offer answers in those small, perfectly rendered moments that make up lives "as quiet as these"--and as familiar as our own.
All are welcome! Any questions, please contact Gail Haller, cell: 773-510-7191.
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