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Authors: Joshua Gaylor

BOOK: Hummingbirds

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acknowledgments

I
owe a deep debt of gratitude to Josh Getzler for his faith, persistence, savvy, and sincerity; and to Sally Kim for making this—every single page—a better book. I also want to thank Simon Lipskar for his incisive reading of the manuscript and his support throughout the entire process. And, most of all, thanks to Megan Abbott, who taught me everything I know about teenage girls and grown men.

About the Author

JOSHUA GAYLORD
received his master’s and Ph.D. from New York University, specializing in twentieth-century American and British literature. For the past nine years, he has taught English at an elite Upper East Side prep school. He also teaches literature and cultural studies as an adjunct professor at the New School. He lives in New York with his wife, the Edgar Award–winning novelist Megan Abbott.

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Credits

Jacket design by Jarrod Taylor

Copyright

Excerpt from “A Modest Proposal” from
Collected Poems
by Ted Hughes. Copyright © 2003 by The Estate of Ted Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, and Faber and Faber Ltd.

HUMMINGBIRDS
. Copyright © 2009 by Joshua Gaylord. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, 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.

Adobe Digital Edition August 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-194175-7

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