The Remedy for Love: A Novel (24 page)

SARAH A. SLOANE

BILL ROORBACH is the author most recently of the bestselling novel
Life Among Giants.
Earlier works of fiction include
Big Bend,
winner of the Flannery O’Connor Prize and an O. Henry Prize. His nonfiction includes
Into Woods
and
Summers with Juliet.
The tenth anniversary edition of his craft book,
Writing Life Stories,
is used in writing programs around the world. His work has been published in
Harper’s, Orion,
the
Atlantic, Playboy,
the
New York Times Magazine, Granta, New York,
and dozens of other magazines and journals. He lives in western Maine.

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© 2014 by Bill Roorbach.

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This is a work of fiction. While, as in all fiction, the literary perceptions and insights are based on experience, all names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

ISBN 978-1-61620-428-0