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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bickham, Jack M.
       Scene and structure / by Jack M. Bickham.
               p.   cm.
       Includes index.
       ISBN-13: 978-0-89879-906-4 (pbk.: alk. paper)
       ISBN-10: 0-89879-906-6 (pbk.: alk. paper)
       1. Fiction—Technique.         I. Title.
    PN3365.B49      1993
    808.3—dc20                                                            92-32134

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