FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, MARCH 2010

Copyright © 2002 by Mark Spragg

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published by Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc., New York in 2002.

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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.

“Mary Bly,” from Collected Poems © 1971 by James Wright. Reprinted with permission from Wesleyan University Press.

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eISBN: 978-0-307-73937-7

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