THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2011 by Richard Mason
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Originally published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicholson, an imprint of Orion Publishing Group, London, in 2011.
eISBN: 978-0-307-95752-8
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Cover image: La Reproduction interdite (Portrait d’Edward James) by René Magritte, 1937. © 2011 C. Herscovici, London / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Photo: Banque d’Images, ADAGP / Art Resource, New York
Cover design by Carol Devine Carson
First American Edition
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