—The New Yorker
Also by Alice Mattison
The Book Borrower: A Novel
Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: Intersecting Stories
Hilda and Pearl: A Novel
The Flight of Andy Burns: Stories
Field of Stars: A Novel
Great Wits: Stories
Animals: Poems
Copyright
Excerpt from The Book Borrower copyright © 1999 by Alice Mattison.
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2004 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
THE WEDDING OF THE TWO-HEADED WOMAN. Copyright © 2004 by Alice Mattison. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks.
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The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Mattison, Alice.
The wedding of the two-headed woman : a novel / by Alice Mattison.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-621378-9
1. Women—Connecticut—Fiction. 2. Community theater—Fiction. 3. Middle-aged women—Fiction. 4. New Haven (Conn.)—Fiction. 5.
Murderers—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3563.A8598W44 2004
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2003044295
ISBN-10: 0-06-093788-2 (pbk.)
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-093788-1 (pbk.)
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