Success as a writer comes early to Larry Morgan, but his wife Sally is stricken by polio and made permanently a cripple. A bosom friendship is formed between the two couples that is to last a lifetime, although that lifetime itself isn't to turn out as ideally as hoped. Their lives are charmed and transformed when they become friends with Charity and Sid Lang, rich easterners whom the star-struck Morgans take to be the epitome of privilege, grace, and culture. Larry Morgan and his wife Sally are young westerners who, one day in Depression-poor 1937, arrive in Madison, Wisconsin, where Larry is to take a one-year teaching post at the University of Wisconsin. Stegner takes a long look back-at four decades of a foursome's life-in a novel that at moments is beguiling, though at others it labors for its theme.
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