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 © 2016 by Mark Haddon

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Simultaneously published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Haddon, Mark, 1962– author.

Title: The pier falls : and other stories / Mark Haddon.

Description: First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2016]

Identifiers: LCCN 2015038507 ISBN 9780385540759 (hardcover) ISBN 9780385540766 (eBook)

Subjects: BISAC: FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Short Stories (single author).

Classification: LCC PR6058.A26 A6 2016 DDC 823/.914—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/​2015038507

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