When a train derails in Two Rivers, railroad worker and single father Harper Montgomery, who is still tormented by grief and his role in a past crime, finds a chance for atonement when he takes in one of the survivors, a pregnant fifteen-year-old girl named Maggie.
In Two Rivers, Vermont, Harper Montgomery is living a life overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his wife, Betsy, twelve years earlier, Harper has narrowed his world to working at the local railroad and raising his daughter, Shelly, the best way he knows how. Still…
"In Two Rivers, Vermont, Harper Montgomery is living a life overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his wife, Betsy, twelve years earlier, Harper has narrowed his world to working at the local railroad and raising his daughter, Shelly, the best way he knows how. Stil…
When his best friend Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987, Jude Keffy-Horn finds his relationship with drugs and his parents devolving into the extreme when he gets caught up in an underground youth culture known as straight edge.
When his best friend Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987, Jude Keffy-Horn finds his relationship with drugs and his parents devolving into the extreme when he gets caught up in an underground youth culture known as straight edge.
When his best friend Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987, Jude Keffy-Horn finds his relationship with drugs and his parents devolving into the extreme when he gets caught up in an underground youth culture known as straight edge.
by Williams, Terry Tempest, Stegner, Wallace, Watkins, T. H., (Tom H.)
A story of a lifelong friendship between two couples evokes the dense web of feeling and experience that binds these people together--joy, sorrow, fulfillment, frustration, anger, forgiveness, suffering and survival.
"Called a "magnificently crafted story ... brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century…
"Called a "magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in "The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety" has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth cen…
Traces the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin -- a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage.
by Williams, Terry Tempest, Stegner, Wallace, Watkins, T. H., (Tom H.)
Called a "magnificently crafted story ... brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century.…
by Poe, Richard, Stegner, Wallace
fromRecorded Books contemporary classics
This story chronicles the lifelong friendship between the Morgans, a young couple with talent and dreams but no prospects or connections, and the Langs, a wealthy couple generous enough to share their good fortune.
"Called a "magnificently crafted story ... brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century…
Traces the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin -- a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage.
The long friendship between art historian Leo Hertzberg and artist Bill Wechsler leads to a growing involvement between their two families as they deal with the joys, sorrows, tragedies, and loss that transform their lives.
Story begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work and tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story spans twenty-f…