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Copyright © 2022 by Robert Finger

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Finger, Bobby, author.

Title: The old place: a novel / Bobby Finger.

Description: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [2022] |

Identifiers: LCCN 2022019072 (print) | LCCN 2022019073 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593422342 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593422359 (ebook)

Subjects: LCGFT: Pastoral fiction. | Novels.

Classification: LCC PS3606.I53378 O43 2022 (print) | LCC PS3606.I53378 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23/eng/20220422

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022019072

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022019073

Cover design: Vi-An Nguyen

Cover images: (house) Simone Golob / Shutterstock; (chair) A-Digit / DigitalVision Vectors / Getty Images; (flowers) Valumyan / Shutterstock

Title page art: Linen background © Limolida Design Studio / Shutterstock

Book design by Alison Cnockaert, adapted for ebook by Maggie Hunt

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, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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