Acknowledgments
With deep gratitude to both my editor Ann Close and my agent Andrew Wylie, and with affection for both. And with thanks for the encouragement and astute suggestions supplied by early readers of this book — my beloved brothers Nick and Chris, Mona Simpson, Tom Hayes, Joshua Pashman, Leslie McGrath, Max Porter. My old friend Tom Disch would have been on this list, but for outrageous fortune.
A Note About the Authorp
Norman Rush is the author of three previous works of fiction: Whites, a collection of stories, and two novels, Mating and Mortals. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. Mating was the recipient of the National Book Award. Rush and his wife live in Rockland County, New York.