Copyright 2015 © Elaine Kalman Naves
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Author photo: Monique Dykstra
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Permissions:
The following publishers have generously given permission to use quotations from the work of Yehuda Amichai: from Open Closed Open, copyright © 2000 by Yehuda Amichai, translations by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld, published by Harcourt, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. From The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, copyright © 1986 by Yehuda Amichai, translations by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell. published by Harper & Row. Newly revised and expanded edition by University of California Press, 1996. Reprinted by permission of University of California Press. From Great Tranquility: Questions and Answers, copyright © 1983 by Yehuda Amichai, translation by Glenda Abramson and Tudor Parfitt. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Permission to quote from “Picture in a Frame” (Waits/Brennan), copyright © 1999 by Jalma Music, c/o peermusic Canada. All rights reserved.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Naves, Elaine Kalman, author The book of faith / Elaine Kalman Naves.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-927535-74-5 (pbk.).--ISBN 978-1-927535-75-2 (epub).--
ISBN 978-1-927535-76-9 (mobi).--ISBN 978-1-927535-77-6 (pdf)
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PS8627.A93B66 2015 C813’.6 C2015-901851-X C2015-901852-8
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