The Idea of Him (29 page)

About the Author

Author photograph by Terry Gruber

 

HOLLY PETERSON
is the author of the
New York Times
bestseller
The Manny
. She was a contributing editor for
Newsweek
and editor-at-large for
Talk
magazine. She was also an Emmy Award–winning producer for ABC News for more than a decade, where she covered global politics. Her writing has been published in the
New York Times
,
Newsweek
,
Talk
, the
Daily Beast
,
Vogue
,
Harper's Bazaar
, and other publications.

 

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Credits

Cover design by Mary Schuck

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Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE IDEA OF HIM
. Copyright © 2014 by Holly Peterson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, 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.

FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Peterson, Holly.

        The idea of him : a novel / Holly Peterson. — First edition.

            p. cm.

    ISBN 978-0-06-228310-8 (pbk.)

    1. Married women—Fiction. 2. Women in the professions—Fiction.

    3. Man-woman relationships—Fiction. 4. Life change events—Fiction.

    5. Self-realization in women—Fiction. 6. New York (N.Y.)

    7. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

    PS3616.E8428I34 2014

    813'.6—dc23

2013026570

EPub Edition APRIL 2014 ISBN: 9780062283115

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