Text copyright © 2011 Robin Stevenson

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Stevenson, Robin, 1968-
Escape velocity [electronic resource] / Robin Stevenson.

Type of computer file: Electronic monograph in PDF format.
Issued also in print format.
ISBN 978-1-55469-867-7

I. Title.
PS8637.T487E83 2011A     JC813'.6    C2011-903484-0

First published in the United States, 2011
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011929278

Summary: Forced to live with the mother who abandoned her at birth, Lou goes looking for truth in her mother’s fiction.

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