![]() ![]() The author parades his knowledge, but I love Stegner’s landscape prose. ![]() Is it a good read? It’s a quality crafted approach but his message melding the struggles of two couples lacked authenticity for me in the female voicing, and humour was sparse. Forgiveness an essential theme refer 2 below. Susan’s attachment to Augusta and the resulting character flaw only yields by page 519 after her marriage to Oliver is compromised. How can Susan report in her letters saying she enjoyed a morning with Ms A a Cornish wife or Mrs B an Irish labourers wife? She can’t, it would not impress Augusta. Stegner set up Susan to fail she has an entrenched school friendship with Augusta a New York society hostess. ![]() The American dream failed for this Victorian couple - the engineer Oliver Ward and his illustrator wife Susan - achieved no capital advantage / leverage for their Labour. ![]()
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