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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

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Epilogue: Extra Innings

Acknowledgments

Also by David Duchovny

Permissions Acknowledgments

A Note About the Author

Copyright

 

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Duchovny, David, author.

Title: Bucky F*cking Dent: a novel / David Duchovny.

Other titles: Bucky Fucking Dent

Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015035382 | ISBN 9780374110420 (hardback) | ISBN 9780374714765 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Fathers and sons—Fiction. | Cancer—Fiction. | Baseball stories. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Humorous. | FICTION / Satire. | GSAFD: Humorous fiction. | Satire.

Classification: LCC PS3604.U343 B83 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

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