Election (17 page)

Harper Perennial

An imprint of HarperCollins
Publishers

77-85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB

www.harperperennial.co.uk
Visit our authors’ blog at www.fifthestate.co.uk

This Harper Perennial edition published 2009

1

First published in the USA in hardback by G. P. Putnam's Sons (1998).

First published in paperback in the USA by Berkley (1998).

Copyright © Tom Perrotta 1998

Tom Perrotta asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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 © MARCH 2009 ISBN: 9780007319411