And Sons: A Novel

& Sons is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, incidents, and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical and public figures, are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Where actual institutions and real-life historical or public figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those entities and persons are entirely fictional and are not intended to describe actual events. In all other respects, any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Alfred Music Publishing Co. Inc. for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Salt of the Earth,” words and music by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, copyright © 1968 (Renewed) ABKCO Music, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Alfred Music Publishing Co. Inc.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Gilbert, David.
& Sons: a novel / David Gilbert.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-8129-9397-4
1. Families—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. 2. Rich people—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. 3. Family secrets—Fiction. 4. Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3557.I3383A64 2013
813′.54—dc23 2012031308

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