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Copyright © 2009 by Robert Cohen
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2009012256
ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-6511-9
ISBN-10: 1-4391-6511-4
The author wishes to thank the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for their generous support.
Portions of this novel appeared, often in very different form, in Virginia Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, and Literary Imagination.
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