FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, JANUARY 1998

Copyright © 1996 by Anita Brookner

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, Ltd., London, in 1996. First published in the United States in hardcover by Random House, Inc., New York, in 1996.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Random House edition as follows:
Brookner, Anita
Altered States / Anita Brookner.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-82631-2
I. Title.
PR6052.R5816A77 1996
823’.914—dc20    96-17268

Altered States is a work of fiction.
The characters in it have been invented by the author.
Any resemblance to people living or dead is purely coincidental.

Author photograph © Jerry Bauer

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