Copyright © 2007 by Carol Muske-Dukes
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Portions of Chapter Eight were originally published in different form in the Fall 2000 issue of TriQuarterly.
The poem “Twin Cities” by Carol Muske-Dukes was originally published in the Fall 2004, number 5, issue of Hunger Mountain.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., for permission to reprint “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour” from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, copyright © 1954 by Wallace Stevens and copyright renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
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Muske-Dukes, Carol
Channeling Mark Twain: a novel / Carol Muske-Dukes.
p. cm.
1. Nineteen seventies—Fiction. 2. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.
I. Title.
PS3563.U837C47 2007
813'.54—dc22 2006049174
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eISBN: 978-1-58836-631-3
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