Authenticity

by Deirdre Madden

  Acknowledgements: The photographs described in Chapter Eleven were inspired by the work of Rineke Dijkstra. The exhibition in Chapter Thirteen concerns the work of Christian Boltanski. The book from which Dan reads in Chapter Thirty-Two is the Oxford Companion to Irish History, published by Oxford University Press.

  This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is purely coincidental.

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