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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Malone, Michael.

The delectable mountains, or, Entertaining strangers / by Michael

Malone.

p. cm.

Originally published: The Delectable Mountains. New York: Random House, 1976

1. College graduates—Fiction. 2. Summer theater—Fiction. 3. Young

men—Fiction. 4. Colorado—Fiction. 5. Actors—Fiction. I. Title:

Delectable mountains. II. Title: Entertaining strangers. III. Title.

PS3563.A43244 D45 2002

813’.54—dc21

2002006927