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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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