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Authors: Marya Hornbacher
This book is a love letter to the people who surrounded me while I wrote it, waiting patiently, encouraging, supporting, and believing in what would ultimately become.
I thank the readers who read and critiqued this novel in countless drafts, including Ruth Berger, David Batcher, Lora Kolodny, Marlee MacLeod, Patrick Whalen, Megan Rye, William Swanson, and many others. There is no way to either name them all or thank them enough for their intelligence and insight.
I thank Joy Johanessonn for her invaluable editorial insight and work on the book in its latter drafts. The book would not have come to completion without her, and I am indebted to her astonishing gifts in coaxing the story to light.
To say I thank Sydelle Kramer, my agent, and the Frances Goldin Literary Agency, is an understatement. Your absurd faith in me and in this book made it possible. There is too much for which to thank you, so I shall leave it at that.
Thanks to Terry Karten for her astonishing loyalty, kindness, and faith during this process. I have finally written the book I wanted to write for you, and I am deeply grateful for your patience as I learned to write a novel we both could love.
Finally, thanks beyond words to my family and my friends. As for Jeff, my husband, closest editor, and most faithful fan, all my love.
M
ARYA
H
ORNBACHER
is a journalist as well as a writer of fiction and memoir. Her first book,
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
, has become a classic.
The Center of Winter
is her first novel. She lives in Minneapolis.
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LSO BY
M
ARYA
H
ORNBACHER
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich
Jacket illustration by John Lewis
THE CENTER OF WINTER.
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Mobipocket Reader January 2005 ISBN 0-06-077189-5
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hornbacher, Marya.
The center of winter : a novel / Marya Hornbacher.—1st ed.
p. cm.
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