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.

Copyright © 2009 by Ethan Coen

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Published in the United States by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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World Premiere
Presented By
Atlantic Theatre Company
New York City, 2008

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Coen, Ethan.
Almost an evening / Ethan Coen.—1st ed.
1. Hell—Drama. 2. Future life—Drama. I. Title.
PS3553.O348A78 2009
812′.54—dc22     2008051748

eISBN: 978-0-307-46042-4

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