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Copyright © 2025 by Adam Ross
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Alfred Music for permission to reprint lyrics from “How High the Moon,” lyrics by Nancy Hamilton, music by Morgan Lewis. © 1940 (Renewed) Chappell & Co., Inc., lyrics from “Amsterdam,” words and music by Jacques Brel, English words by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman. © 1968 (Renewed) Pouchenel, Editions, and Mort Shuman Songs. All rights for Pouchenel, Editions administered by Unichappell Music, Inc. All rights for Mort Shuman songs administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., and lyrics from “If We only Have Love,” English lyrics by Mort Shuman, Music by Jacques Brel. © 1968 (Renewed) Unichappell Music, Inc., Mort Shuman Songs and Romantic Music Corp. All rights for Mort Shuman Songs administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Alfred Music.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ross, Adam, [date]- author.
Title: Playworld : a novel / Adam Ross.
Description: First Edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023048923 (print) | LCCN 2023048924 (ebook) | ISBN 9780385351294 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780385351300 (ebook)
Subjects: LCGFT: Novels.
Classification: LCC PS3618.O84515 P53 2025 (print) | LCC PS3618.O84515 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23/eng/20231018
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023048923
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023048924
Ebook ISBN 9780385351300
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Cover photograph by Adrian Samson/Trunk Archive
Cover design by Oliver Munday
Griffynweld map design by David Lindroth
Frontispiece photograph by Steven Sebring
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