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2002 Modern Library Paperback Edition

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Stegner, Wallace Earle.
Crossing to safety / Wallace Stegner; introduction by Terry Tempest Williams;
afterword by T. H. Watkins.—Modern Library paperback ed.
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1. Married people—Fiction. 2. Friendship—Fiction. 3. Novelists—Fiction.
4. Vermont—Fiction. I. Title.
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