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Authors: James Jones

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Jones with fellow National Book Award winners Marianne Moore, Rachel Carson, and John Mason Brown at the Hotel Commodor in New York City.

Jones with his son, Jamie, and daughter, Kaylie, in 1966. The family was visiting Skiathos, Greece, where Jones had bought a piece of land in hopes of building a house—before ultimately deciding that the area was too quiet.

Jones at Florida International University in Miami, where he taught fiction writing during the 1974—1975 school year.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Grateful acknowledgment to Princeton University Press to quote from
The I Ching: or Book of Changes
, translated by Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes, Bollingen Series XIX (copyright © 1950, 1967 by Bollingen Foundation), Princeton University Press, 3
rd
ed. 1967.

copyright © 1970 by Dell Publishing Co., Inc.

cover design by Karen Horton

978-1-4532-1555-5

This edition published in 2011 by Open Road Integrated Media

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Table of Contents

The Merry Month of May

Dedication

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

A Biography of James Jones

Copyright

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