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THE DARLING. Copyright © 2004 by Russell Banks. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
    Banks, Russell.
        The darling / Russell Banks.
            p. cm.

    ISBN 0-06-019735-8

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     PS3552.A49D37 2004

     813'.54—dc22

2004047431

ISBN-10: 0-06-095735-2 (pbk.)

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-095735-3 (pbk.)

EPub Edition © JULY 2011 ISBN: 9780062123213

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