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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Scott O’Connor was born in Syracuse, New York. He is the author of the novella Among Wolves and the novel Untouchable, for which he was awarded the 2011 Barnes & Noble Discover Award for fiction. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
O’Connor, Scott.
Half World : A Novel / Scott O’Connor.
pages cm
1. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS3615.C595H35 2014
813ˇ.6—dc23
2013024016
ISBN 978-1-4767-1659-6
ISBN 978-1-4767-1661-9 (ebook)
Contents
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Epigraph
Across Country
PART ONE
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PART TWO
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CODA
AUTHOR’S NOTE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
READING GROUP GUIDE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Half World: A Novel Page 39