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Authors: Matthew Quick

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MATTHEW QUICK
is the
New York Times
best-selling author of several novels, including
The Silver Linings Playbook
, which was made into an Oscar-winning film, and
The Good Luck of Right Now
. His work has been translated into thirty languages and has received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, among other accolades. He lives with his wife, novelist/pianist Alicia Bessette, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

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CREDITS

COVER DESIGN BY GREGG KULICK

COPYRIGHT

This novel is a work of fiction. Any references to real people, events, quotations, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to give the fiction a sense of reality and authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All other names, characters, and places, and all dialogue and incidents portrayed in this book, are the product of the author’s imagination.

LOVE MAY FAIL
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Excerpt from JAILBIRD by Kurt Vonnegut, copyright © 1979 by Kurt Vonnegut. Used by permission of Dell Publishing, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Excerpt from MOTHER NIGHT by Kurt Vonnegut, copyright © 1961, 1966 by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Used by permission of Dell Publishing, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

FIRST EDITION

EPub Edition JUNE 2015 ISBN 9780062285584

ISBN: 978-0-06-228556-0 (hardcover)

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