Mascara: A Novel

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dorfman, Ariel.
Mascara : a novel / Ariel Dorfman.—1st pbk. ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-60980-258-5
1. Women—Fiction. 2. Girls—Crimes against—Fiction. 3. Identity (Psychology)—Fiction. 4. Plastic surgeons—Fiction. 5. Authoritarianism—Fiction. 6. Age (Psychology)—Fiction. 7. Revenge—Fiction. I. Title.
PR9309.9.D67M37 2004
863’.64—dc22

2004012308

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