The Rope Walk (39 page)
Authors: Carrie Brown
The passages of Lewis and Clark's journals quoted here are taken from
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
edited by Bernard DeVoto, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953. This edition is based on the
Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites in 1904—5. The version of the story I imagined Alice reading aloud to Kenneth Fitzgerald and Theo would likely contain more narrative and fewer of the actual journal entries themselves, whose archaic and erratic spellings, while perfectly consistent with an account being composed in the wilderness with neither typewriter nor editor, can make for rather difficult reading.
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2007 by Carrie Brown
Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
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.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Pantheon edition as follows:
Brown, Carrie, [date]
The rope walk / Carrie Brown.
p. cm.
1. Girls—Fiction. 2. African American boys—Fiction. 3. Friendship in children—Fiction.
4. Intergenerational relations—Fiction. 5. AIDS (Disease)—Patients—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3552.R68529R68 2007
813′.54—c22
2006024869
eISBN: 978-0-307-49029-2
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