Copyright © Keith Maillard 2006

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Originally published by Brindle & Glass Publishing Ltd. in 2006 with ISBN 978-1-897142-09-7.

This electronic edition was released in 2011.
e-pub ISBN: 978-1-897142-78-3
e-pdf ISBN: 978-1-897142-77-3

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Cover image: istockphoto.com
Author photo: Mary Maillard

Acknowledgements: The sentence from Gary Snyder that Pam quotes is from his essay “Buddhism in the Coming Revolution” collected in Earth House Hold (New Directions: New York, 1969). The song playing in John’s acid trip and echoed again is “Stay” by Maurice Williams. © 1960 Cheerio Corporation, International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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