STEGNER, WALLACE — Marvelous reading performance by 1972 Pulitzer Prize winner. Stegner reads from his new novel, CROSSING TO SAFETY, which chronicles a life-long friendship between two couples, one poor, the other rich, one husband a successful writer, the other a failed academic. He also reads from his 1977 National Book Award winner, THE SPECTATOR BIRD. At his wittiest and most sardonic here, narrator Joe Allston relates the story of his stormy ocean crossing to Denmark and his introduction to the twisted and arrogant Lord of the Manor whom he and his wife encounter on a visit to Allston’s mother’s home village. Approximately 60 minutes.
