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Excerpt from “Body and Soul II” from A Short History of the Shadow by Charles Wright. Copyright © 2002 by Charles Wright. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gabel, Aja, author.
Title: The ensemble : a novel / Aja Gabel.
Description: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017004103 | ISBN 9780735214767 | ISBN 9780735214781 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Musicians—Fiction. | Musical groups—Fiction. | Interpersonal relations—Fiction. | Man-woman relationships—Fiction. | Psychological fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3607.A2285 E57 2018 | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017004103
p. cm.
This is a work 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.