The Shadow Year (27 page)
Authors: Jeffrey Ford
J
EFFREY
F
ORD
is the author of seven previous novels including most recently the Edgar Awardâwinning
The Girl in the Glass
. He is a professor of writing and early American literature at a college in New Jersey. Visit his blog at http://14theditch.livejournal.com.
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NOVELS
The Girl in the Glass
The Cosmology of the Wider World
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
The Beyond
Memoranda
The Physiognomy
Vanitas
STORY COLLECTIONS
The Empire of Ice Cream
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant
Jacket design by Ervin Serrano
Jacket photograph by Dan Burn-Forti/Getty Images
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE SHADOW YEAR
. Copyright © 2008 by Jeffrey Ford. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition © JANUARY 2008 ISBN: 9780061863752
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