Lunar Park (35 page)

ALSO BY BRET EASTON ELLIS

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2005 by Bret Easton Ellis

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The Way We Were,
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ellis, Bret Easton.

Lunar Park / Bret Easton Ellis.

p. cm.

1. Novelists—Fiction. 2. Suburban life—Fiction. 3. Married people—Fiction. 4. College teachers—Fiction. 5. Hallucinations and illusions—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3555.L5937L86 2005

813′.54—dc22

2005040923

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

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