First published in the United States in 2015 by

Bellevue Literary Press, New York

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© 2015 by Norman Lock

This is a work of fiction. Characters, organizations, events, and places (even those that are actual) are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lock, Norman, 1950– author.

  American meteor / by Norman Lock.—First edition.

        pages cm

  ISBN 978-1-934137-95-6 (ebook)

  I. Title.

  PS3562.O218A82 2015

  813’.54—dc23

2014036638

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Front cover photo, Pulpit Rock, Echo Cañon, Utah, 1900 by William Henry Jackson—used by permission of High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

Book design and composition by Mulberry Tree Press, Inc.

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