by James Sie
And to Stel, of course.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Sie was born in New Jersey and raised by a Chinese father and an Italian mother. He wrote and performed a solo show about his bicultural upbringing, Talking with My Hands, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, where he now lives with his husband and their son. His plays have been produced in Chicago, New York, and Seattle, among other places. In addition to writing, Sie currently works as a voice-over artist in animation, most notably featured in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness and Jackie Chan Adventures.
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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Sungyoon Choi is an illustrator and a comic book artist living in Los Angeles, California. She studied illustration as visual essay in the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts. She illustrated the graphic novels American Widow and Mission in a Bottle.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Preface
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Illustrator
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
STILL LIFE LAS VEGAS. Copyright © 2015 by James Sie. Illustrations copyright © 2015 by Sungyoon Choi. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover design by Young Jin Lim
Cover illustrations by Sungyoon Choi
Cover photographs: accordion, statue, gondola © Shutterstock; road, scenes of Venetian hotel © Getty Images; red balloon against ceiling by James Sie
Lyrics to “Never Say Goodbye, Say Ciao” by Liberace. Copyright by Liberace Foundation for the Creative & Performing Arts, www.liberace.org.
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The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.
ISBN 978-1-250-05566-8 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-5926-5 (e-book)
e-ISBN 9781466859265
First Edition: August 2015