by Greg Jackson
Metanarrative Breakdown
Acknowledgments
A Note About the Author
Copyright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Copyright © 2016 by Greg Jackson
All rights reserved
First edition, 2016
These stories previously appeared, in slightly different form, in the following publications: The New Yorker (“Wagner in the Desert”), VQR (“Serve-and-Volley, Near Vichy”), and Granta (“Epithalamium”).
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint an excerpt from The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso, translated by Tim Parks, copyright © 1993 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Jackson, Greg, 1983–
Title: Prodigals: stories / Greg Jackson.
Description: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015035366|ISBN 9780374238131 (hardback)|ISBN 9780374713751 (e-book)
Subjects:|BISAC: FICTION / Literary.
Classification: LCC PS3610.A3517 A6 2016|DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015035366
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