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Authors: Ben Sherwood
B
EN
S
HERWOOD
is senior broadcast producer of the
NBC Nightly News.
His nonfiction writing has appeared in many places, including
The New York Times, The Washington Post
, and the
Los Angeles Times.
Educated at Harvard and Oxford, he lives in New York, where he is at work on his next novel.
THE MAN WHO ATE THE 747 is being published in fifteen countries, including Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. The novel is also being adapted as a major motion picture from Bel Air Entertainment and Warner Brothers.
Visit the author’s website at
www.bensherwood.com
.
Watch for Ben Sherwood’s
remarkable new novel…
“I’ll
never
l
eave you.
”
After returning from the brink of death following a horrible car accident, that’s what Charlie St. Cloud had promised his younger brother.
He kept that promise all his life.
And then, much to his surprise, Charlie St. Cloud fell in love.
THE
DEATH
AND
LIFE
OF
CHARLIE
ST. CLOUD
A novel by
BEN SHERWOOD
To be published as a Bantam hardcover in 2003
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint:
Guinness World Records Ltd. for use of actual records from their various publications; lyrics from the song “The Nearness of You” by Ned Washington and Hoagy Carmichael, copyright © 1937, 1940 by Famous Music Corporation, copyright renewed 1964, 1967 by Famous Music Corporation; “LVI by Narihira” by Kenneth Rexroth, from ONE HUNDRED POEMS FROM THE JAPANESE, copyright © All Rights Reserved by New Directions Publishing Corporation. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation; “Love Walked In” by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, copyright ©1937, 1938 (renewed 1964, 1965) George Gershwin Music and Ira Gershwin Music. All Rights Administered by WB Music Corp. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. WARNER BROTHERS PUBLICATIONS U.S. INC., Miami, FL 33014.
This edition contains the complete text of the original trade paperback edition.
NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED.
THE MAN WHO ATE THE 747
A Bantam Book
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Bantam hardcover edition published September 2000
Bantam mass market edition / February 2002
All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2000 by Ben Sherwood
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 00-023713
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eISBN: 978-0-307-42856-1
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