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Pages 215 to 223 of “Famous Last Meals” first appeared as “Perennial”
in I Am Not Most Places, copyright Richard Cumyn 1996. Published with
permission of Dundurn Press Limited

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Cumyn, Richard, 1957-, author
Famous last meals / Richard Cumyn.

3 novellas.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-927855-17-1 (pbk.).--ISBN 978-1-927855-18-8 (epub).--
ISBN 978-1-927855-19-5 (mobi)

I. Title.

PS8555.U4894F34 2015 C813'.54 C2014-907245-7
C2014-907246-5

“He had always been an actor, the call had never come.”
—James Salter, Solo Faces

“She was by nature an actress of parts that entered into
her physique: she even acted her own character, and so well, that she did not know it to be precisely her own.”
—George Eliot, Middlemarch

“In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.”
—Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana