THINGS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME: A HOWARD WALDROP READER Copyright © 2008 Howard Waldrop. All Rights Reserved.

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Ebook ISBN: 978-1-61873-079-4

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-882968-35-0

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A companion volume, Other Worlds Better Lives: A Howard Waldrop Reader: Selected Long Fiction 1989-2003 is also available:

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-61873-080-0

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-882968-37-4

Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-882968-38-1