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First published as Le Chien d’Ulysse by Rivages/Noir Inedit, Paris

Lyrics for C’est La Vie by Jack White and Jack Stark © Universal Music

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Copyright © 1993, 2012 by Jim Nisbet

The author extends his hearty thanks to the editors of Pangolin Papers

wherein the first chapter of this novel first appeared in English, under the

title Ulysses’ Dog, and to the readers of that magazine, who awarded it

the magazine’s very first Annual Fiction Prize.

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