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Copyright © 2023 by Sigrid Nunez
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Parts of this book were originally published, in slightly different form, in The Threepenny Review and in Little Star.
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following:
Excerpts from “A Preface” from Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion. Copyright © 1966, 1968, renewed 1996 by Joan Didion. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All rights reserved.
“In the Dark Times,” originally published in German in 1939 as “Motto: In den finsteren Zeiten,” translated by Tom Kuhn. Copyright © 1976, 1961 by Bertolt-Brecht-Erben / Suhrkamp Verlag, from Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
library of congress cataloging-in-publication data
Names: Nunez, Sigrid, author.
Title: The Vulnerables : A Novel / Sigrid Nunez.
Description: New York : Riverhead Books, 2023.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023017491 (print) | LCCN 2023017492 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593715512 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593715888 (international edition) | ISBN 9780593715536 (ebook)
Subjects: LCGFT: Novels.
Classification: LCC PS3564.U485 V85 2023 (print) | LCC PS3564.U485 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54—dc23/eng/20230413
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023017491
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023017492
International edition ISBN: 9780593715888
Cover design: Lauren Peters-Collaer
Cover art: (hydrangea plant) Detail of illustration by Frederick Edward Hulme for Familiar Garden Flowers / Photo: © Look and Learn/Bridgeman Images; (macaw) Detail of illustration copied from George Edwards engraving from The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine / Photo: © Florilegius/Bridgeman Images
Book design by Amanda Dewey, adapted for ebook by Cora Wigen
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, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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