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First published by Egmont USA, 2011
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Copyright © Allen Zadoff, 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Zadoff, Allen.
My life, the theater, and other tragedies: a novel / by Allen Zadoff.
p. cm.
Summary: While working backstage on a high school production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” sixteen-year-old Adam develops feelings for a beautiful actress—which violates an unwritten code—and begins to overcome the grief that has controlled him since his father’s death nearly two years earlier.
ISBN 978-1-60684-036-8 (hardcover)—ISBN 978-1-60684-256-0 (e-book) [1. Theater—Fiction. 2. Interpersonal relations—Fiction.
3. Grief—Fiction. 4. High schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction.
6. New Jersey—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.Z21My 2011 [Fic]—dc22 2010043619
Printed in the United States of America
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