Sarah Crichton Books

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Copyright © 2014 by Michelle Huneven

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First edition, 2014

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Huneven, Michelle, 1953–

    Off course: a novel / Michelle Huneven. — First edition.

        pages  cm

    ISBN 978-0-374-22447-9 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-374-71053-8 (ebook)

    1.  Doctoral students—Fiction.   2.  Single women—Fiction.   3.  Man-woman relationships—Fiction.   4.  Mountain life—Fiction.   I.  Title.

PS3558 . U4662 038 2014

813'.54—dc23

2013036858

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

eISBN 9780374710538