FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, AUGUST 2001
Essay by Margaret Atwood copyright © 2000 by O. W. Toad. Essay by John Irving
copyright © 2000 by Garp Enterprises. Essay by Wayne Johnston copyright © 2000 by
1310945. All other essays copyright © 2000 by individual contributors.
Introduction copyright © 2000 by Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill,
Esta Spalding, Linda Spalding.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in slightly different form in hardcover in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, in 2000.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lost classics / edited by Michael Ondaatje … [et al.].—1st Anchor Books ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2000.
eISBN: 978-0-307-78115-4
1. Authors—Books and reading. I. Ondaatje, Michael, 1943–
Z1039.A87 L67 2001
028′.9—dc21 00-053128
Essays by the following contributors were originally published, some in a slightly different form, in Brick: A Literary Journal, numbers 61–63: Margaret Atwood, Murray Bail, Russell Banks, Anne Carson, George Elliott Clarke, Robert Creeley, Douglas Fetherling, Charles Foran, Helen Garner, Michael Helm, Greg Hollingshead, Isabel Huggan, Laird Hunt, John Irving, Pico Iyer, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Alan Lightman, David Malouf, Harry Mathews, Erin Mouré, Michael Redhill, Joanna Scott, Sarah Sheard, Esta Spalding, Sharon Thesen, Colm Toibin, Edmund White.
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