Copyright © 2003 by Helen Knode
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Knode, Helen.
The ticket out/Helen Knode—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-15-100184-7
ISBN 0-15-602905-7 (pbk)
1. Women film critics—Fiction. 2. Motion picture industry—Fiction. 3. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3611.N63 T53 2003
813'.6 dc21 2002007804
Text set in Electra
Designed by Cathy Riggs
Printed in the United States of America
First Harvest edition 2004
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