FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, MARCH 2003
Copyright © 2002 by John Burnham Schwartz
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 hardcover in the United States by Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2002.
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events 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.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday edition as follows:
Schwartz, John Burnham
Claire Marvel: a novel / John Burnham Schwartz
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-4000-7580-5
1. Political science teachers—Fiction. 2. Graduate students—Fiction. 3. Loss (Psychology)—Fiction. I. Title
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