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Copyright © 1987 by Robert Coover

“After Lazarus” was originally published by Bruccoli Clark Publishers and “Charlie in the House of Rue” by Penmaen Press, both in 1980. Other fictions in the volume originally appeared in Evergreen Review, TriQuarterly, Frank, Paris Exiles, and Playboy. The author is grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts for a grant which supported the completion of this book and to Brown University for the computer services on which it was written.

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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.