Cakewalk is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2016 by American Artists, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
BANTAM BOOKS and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Frontispiece: John Singer Sargent, American, 1856–1925, Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth), 1897, oil on canvas, 231 × 124 cm (90¾ × 48¾ in.), Wirt D. Walker Collection, 1922. 4450, The Art Institute of Chicago. Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago.
Title spread art: (background) © iStock.com/Spiderplay, © iStock.com/MKucova
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Brown, Rita Mae, author.
Title: Cakewalk : a novel / Rita Mae Brown.
Description: New York : Bantam Books, [2016]
Identifiers: LCCN 2016009034 | ISBN 9780553392654 (hardcover) |
ISBN 9780553392661 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: City and town life—Mason-Dixon Line—Fiction. |
Interpersonal relations—Fiction. | Sisters—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION /
Sagas. | FICTION / Historical. | FICTION / Lesbian.
Classification: LCC PS3552.R698 C35 2016 | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/2016009034
Ebook ISBN 9780553392661
Book design by Liz Cosgrove, adapted for ebook
Cover design: Victoria Allen
Cover photograph: bathing beauties with parasols, c. 1928
(Prismatic Pictures/Bridgeman Images)
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