Copyright © 2015 by Paul Russell.

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Printed in the United States.

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Cover photograph: iStockphoto

Text design: Frank Wiedemann

First Edition.

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Trade paper ISBN: 978-1-62778-095-7

E-book ISBN: 978-1-62778-109-1

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Russell, Paul Elliott

 Immaculate blue : a novel / by Paul Russell. -- First edition.

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 Summary: “From the award-winning author of The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered novel Immaculate Blue, which explores the lives of four people - Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia - and their intermingled and unwinding desires. Set in upstate New York, the novel follows these characters as they achieve their aims in lives redolent with loss and hope, humor and sadness, union and alienation. Russell picks up the thread of his critically acclaimed novel The Salt Point 20 years later and tracks the lives of these friends, some of whom not only lost touch with each other but have also lost their way. Moving, at times shocking, and always memorable, Immaculate Blue points to where the personal and the political come together and shape our lives in unexpected ways. With this newest novel, Paul Russell reminds us of why he is one of the most important voices on the literary scene”-- Provided by publisher.

 ISBN 978-1-62778-095-7 (softcover : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-1-62778-109-1 (ebook)

1. Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction. 2. Friendship--Fiction. 3. Poughkeepsie (N.Y.)--Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3568.U7684I47 2014

  813’.54--dc23

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