An Available Man is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2012 by Hilma Wolitzer
Reading Group Guide copyright © 2012 by Random House, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine,
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to peermusic for permission to reprint excerpts from “Bésame Mucho” (Kiss Me Much). Original Spanish words and music by Consuelo Velázquez, English lyrics by Sunny Skylar, copyright © 1941, 1943 by Promotora Hispano Americana de Musica S.A. Administered by Peer International Corporation. Reprinted by permission.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wolitzer, Hilma.
An available man : a novel / Hilma Wolitzer.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-52756-1
1. Widowers—Fiction. 2. Older people—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3573.O563A95 2012
813′.54—dc23 2011037248
Jacket design: Gabrielle Bordwin
Jacket image: DeA Picture Library/Getty Images
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