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Copyright © 2017 by Augustus Rose
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Frontispiece: “Typo / Topography of Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass,” 2003, by Richard Hamilton (1922–2011). Purchased 2004. Artwork © R. Hamilton. All rights reserved, DACS and ARS 2017.
Photo: © Tate, London 2016.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Rose, Augustus, author.
Title: The readymade thief / Augustus Rose.
Description: New York : Viking, [2017] | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016057139 (print) | LCCN 2017011575 (ebook) | ISBN 9780735221857 (ebook) | ISBN 9780735221833 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Homeless teenagers—Fiction. | Philadelphia (Pa.)—Fiction. | Suspense fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Suspense.
Classification: LCC PS3618.O782825 (ebook) | LCC PS3618.O782825 R43 2017 (print) | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016057139
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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