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First published in 2008 by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

 
Copyright © Jon Fasman, 2008

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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint an excerpt from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.
Copyright © 1972 by Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a. English translation by William Weaver copyright © 1974
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. .

 
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or
are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

 
Fasman, Jon.
The unpossessed city : a novel / Jon Fasman.
p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-4406-3856-5

I. Title.
PS3606.A775U57 2008
813’.6—dc22
2008027002

 

 

 
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