They are fortune's children, favored with intelligence, breeding and money. Equally excited by their opportunities are Sid Lang, another junior man in the English department, and his wife Charity. Hard work, hope and the will to succeed as a writer motivate the penurious narrator Larry Morgan and his wife Sally as he begins a term teaching at the university. Two couples meet during the Depression years in Madison, Wis., and become devoted friends despite vast differences in upbringing and social status. It is a meditation on the idealism and spirit of youth, when the world is full of promise, and on the blows and compromises life inevitably inflicts. Adding to a distinguished body of work that already has earned him a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Awardand on the 50th anniversary of the publication of his first novelStegner's new book is an eloquent, wise and immensely moving narrative.
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