A Shooting Star (CD-Audio)

from CatieN

Sabrina Castro was born into an extremely wealthy family and then married a rich doctor who works too much. Both in her childhood and her marriage she was emotionally deprived. Now she is bored, unsatisfied, so she has an affair and then tells her husband. Sounds like a good story, but it moves v...

from elsyd

While the basic idea for this story was good, the book itself went on interminably. The melodrama just went on and on and on and on! I think there are very few men who can think and write as a woman. I loved Stegner's Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety. I did not love A Shooting Star.

from stevesmits

An amazing work by Stegner. Is this man still remembered and valued so many years after he's gone? He should be for in my view he is one of the finest writers of the 20th century. This novel takes place in the early 60's in California. In the first pages Sabrina Castro announces to her husband th...