this is a borzoi book

published by alfred a. knopf

Copyright © 2021 by Atticus Lish

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lish, Atticus, author.

Title: The war for Gloria / Atticus Lish.

Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. | “This is a Borzoi Book”—Title page verso.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020057124 (print) | LCCN 2020057125 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524732325 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781524732332 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524712099 (open market)

Subjects: LCSH: Mothers and sons—Fiction. | Fathers and sons—Fiction. | Abusive men—Fiction. | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—Patients—Fiction. | GSAFD: Bildungsromans.

Classification: LCC PS3612.I827 W37 2021 (print) | LCC PS3612.I827 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2020057124

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2020057125

Ebook ISBN 9781524732332

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover image: Whirling Sunrise (detail), 2003, by Derek Crow © Estate of Derek Crow / Bridgeman Images

Cover design by Linda Huang

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