FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, JULY 1998
Copyright © 1997 by Éditions Robert Laffont, S.A., Paris
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Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States
by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Originally published in France as Le Scaphandre et le
Papillon by Éditions Robert Laffont, S.A., Paris, in 1997.
This translation first published in hardcover in the United States
by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to EMI Music Publishing for permission to reprint excerpts from “A Day in the Life” by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, copyright © 1967, copyright renewed 1995 by Sony/ATV Songs LLC. Administered by EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI). All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Used by permission.
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