B
ENJAMIN
H
ALE
is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he received a Provost’s Fellowship to complete this novel, which also went on to win a Michener-Copernicus Award. He has been a night shift baker, a security guard, a trompe l’oeil painter, a cartoonist, an illustrator and a technical writer. He grew up in Colorado and now lives in New York.
Copyright © 2011 by Benjamin Hale
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First eBook Edition: February 2011
ISBN: 978-0-446-57507-2