American Music (17 page)
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jane Mendelsohn is a graduate of Yale University. She is the author of two previous novels, including the
New York Times
best seller
I Was Amelia Earhart
, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and has been translated into many languages. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.
This Is a Borzoi Book
Published by Alfred A. Knopf
Copyright © 2010 by Jane Mendelsohn
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto
.
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc
.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Nick Cave for permission to reprint an excerpt from “The Ship Song” by Nick Cave. Reprinted by permission of Mute Song Ltd. on behalf of Nick Cave
.
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental
.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mendelsohn, Jane, 1965–
American music / by Jane Mendelsohn. —1st ed
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p. cm
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eISBN: 978-0-307-59368-9
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Families—Fiction. 1. Title
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PS
3563.
E
482
A
8 2010
813′. 54 —dc22 2009037382
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