Ask the Author: Nichole Bernier
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Nichole Bernier
Da! Chipping away.
Is your favorite novel Crossing to Safety? Sorry, I can't tell in this format whether you're replying to my previous answer :) I do love that book, have read it three times, and take away something new each time. Most recently, I was impressed by the narrative voice — Larry Morgan is a great combination of confidence with self-effacing humor, and Stegner does such a wonderful job of infusing the long flashbacks (which comprise most of the book) with wise and wry insights from his older self.
Is your favorite novel Crossing to Safety? Sorry, I can't tell in this format whether you're replying to my previous answer :) I do love that book, have read it three times, and take away something new each time. Most recently, I was impressed by the narrative voice — Larry Morgan is a great combination of confidence with self-effacing humor, and Stegner does such a wonderful job of infusing the long flashbacks (which comprise most of the book) with wise and wry insights from his older self.
Nichole Bernier
Oh, this is a tough one! The pair I keep coming back to isn’t the most well-matched or romantic couple, but they’re iconic for how quietly dysfunctional they were: Sid and Charity Lang, in Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety, set mostly in the '30s and '40s. He’s a dreamer, an English professor who just wants to tinker in his think-house and write poetry. She’s a bold, adventurous, type-A wife and friend who makes the trains run on time, creates lots of fun, but wants to micromanage everything him about him — from his ambition, to the way he is supposed to eventually live without her. Such a rich portrait of marriage, and personality differences, as we age.
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