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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Markson, David.

The last novel / David Markson.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-143-1

ISBN-10: 1-59376-143-0

1. Novelists—Fiction. 2. Fiction—Authorship—Fiction.

3. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

PS3563.A67L37 2007

813'.54—dc22                    2006038793

Cover design by Kimberly Glyder Design

Interior design by David Bullen

Printed in the United States of America

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