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First published the United States of America by Viking Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018
Published in Penguin Books 2019
Copyright © 2018 by A.M. Homes
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“Brother on Sunday” first appeared in The New Yorker; “Whose Story Is It and Why Is It Always on Her Mind?” in The National Media Museum; “Days of Awe” in Granta; “Hello Everybody” in Electric Literature; “All Is Good Except for the Rain” in The Guardian; “Your Mother Was a Fish” in Ghaha Amer, Gagosian Gallery; “The Last Good Time” in Insomnia and the Greenhouse, Koen van den Broek, Hatje Cantz Germany; “Be Mine” in The Guardian and East Magazine; “A Prize for Every Player” in Bill Owens Collected Works, Damiani Editore, Italy; “The Omega Point, or Happy Birthday Baby” in One Story and Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge, MASS MoCA; “She Got Away” in Playboy.
ISBN 9780143133261 (paperback)
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS:
Names: Homes, A. M., author.
Title: Days of awe / A.M. Homes.
Description: New York, New York : Viking, [2018] |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018013217 (print) | LCCN 2018026667 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525558934 (ebook) | ISBN 9780670025497 (hardback)
Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Family Life. | FICTION / Short Stories (single author). | FICTION / Literary. | GSAFD: Short stories.
Classification: LCC PS3558.O448 (ebook) | LCC PS3558.O448 A6 2018 (print) | DDC 813/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018013217
These selections are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Cover design: Paul Buckley
Cover photograph: White Sands Monument, 1964. © Garry Winogrand. Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
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