<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:a7d391a7-f2ec-4cfc-822f-ded4f46522b9" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <p class="left"><a id="piv"/> <span style="font-size: smaller">FIRST MARINER BOOKS EDITION</span> 2003</p> <p class="timebreak"> <br/></p> <p class="left">Copyright © 2002 by Rick Bass</p> <p class="timebreak"> <br/></p> <p class="left">All rights reserved</p> <p class="timebreak"> <br/></p> <p class="left">For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003.</p> <p class="timebreak"> <br/></p> <p class="left"><a href="http://www.hmhbooks.com">www.hmhbooks.com</a></p> <p class="timebreak"> <br/></p> <p class="left">The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:</p> <p class="left">Bass, Rick, date.<br/> The hermit’s story : stories / by Rick Bass,<br/> p. cm.<br/> Contents: The hermit’s story—Swans—The prisoners—The fireman—The cave—Presidents’ Day—Real town—Eating—The distance—Two deer.</p> <p class="left">ISBN: 978-0-618-38044-2</p> <p class="left">1. United States—Social life and customs—20th century—Fiction. I. Title.<br/> <span style="font-size: smaller">PS</span>3552.<span style="font-size: smaller">A</span>8213 <span style="font-size: smaller">H</span>47 2002<br/> 813'.54—dc21 2001051616</p> <p class="timebreak"> <br/></p> <p class="left">eISBN 978-0-547-34668-7<br/> v2.0513</p> </body> </html>