Authors: Darcy Cosper
Wedding Season (39 page)
For inspiration and encouragement at various junctures, thanks to Elizabeth Bogner, Sarah Burnes, Dawn Davis, Linda Rattner, Sarah Saffian, and Cheryl Willems.
Particular thanks to John Bowe, David Gates, Panio Gianopoulos, Scott Karambis, Bill O’Neil, Pavia Rosati, and Alice Vernon, for invaluable editorial guidance, and for their sustaining enthusiasm when my own flagged.
Finally, thanks to Anthony Steele and to my family-Alice Bradie, Elora Cosper, Skip Cosper, Lenore and Stanley Furman, Steve Johnson, Alex and Ginny, and Mimi Maduro—whose support makes everything possible.
D
ARCY
C
OSPER
is a writer and book reviewer. Her work has appeared in publications including
The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum
, the
Village Voice, Nerve
, and
GQ
, and in the anthologies
Full Frontal Fiction
and the forthcoming
Sex & Sensibility.
She lives in Los Angeles and New York. This is her first novel.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Alfred A. Knopf: Excerpt from
Collected Poems
by Frank O’Hara.
Copyright © 1971 by Maureen Granville-Smith, Administratrix of the Estate of Frank O’Hara. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
Houghton Mifflin Company: Excerpt from “Wait” from
Mortal Acts, Mortal Words
by Galway Kinnell. Copyright © 1980 by Galway Kinnell.
All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.
PFD: Excerpt from “Post Modernism: Adventures in Etiquette” by Julian Barnes
(The New Yorker
, April 12, 1999). 75(7): 102-103, 105-106, 108-109. Reprinted by permission of PFD on behalf of the author.
Copyright © 2004 by Darcy Cosper
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cosper, Darcy.
Wedding Season / by Darcy Cosper.—1st ed.
1. Weddings—Fiction. 2. Single women—Fiction.
3. Mate selection—Fiction.
I. Title.
PS36o3.O865W43 2004
813′.6–dc22 2003027921
eISBN: 978-0-307-54910-5
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