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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2002 by Thomas McGuane
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Portions of this novel originally appeared in somewhat different form as the following pieces: “A Black Dress” in GQ; “Boom and Bust” in The Harvard Review; “Family” and “War and Peace” in The New Yorker; “Bees” in Open City.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McGuane, Thomas.
The cadence of grass / Thomas McGuane.
p. cm.
E-ISBN 1-4000-4017-5
1. Family-owned business enterprises—Fiction.
2. Inheritance and succession—Fiction.
3. Montana—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3563.A3114 C33 2002
813'.54—DC21 2001050623
v1.0
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