The 158-Pound Marriage
by John Irving | 
The Thanatos Syndrome
by Walker Percy | 
Rabbit Redux
by John Updike | 
Couples
by John Updike | 
Love in the Ruins
by Walker Percy | 
The Mezzanine
by Nicholson Baker | 
Falconer
by John Cheever | 
The Second Coming
by Walker Percy | 
The Other
by David Guterson | 
The Lay of the Land
by Richard Ford | 
Travels in the Scriptorium
by Paul Auster | 
Lancelot
by Walker Percy | 
Giles Goat-Boy
by John Barth | 
Bullet Park
by John Cheever | 
The Wapshot Chronicle
by John Cheever | 
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck | 
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens | 
Room
by Emma Donoghue | 
Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder | 
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner |
?Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by T. H. Watkins ?Called a '??magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom'? by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage.