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Four Freedoms

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by John Crowley


  Bret A. Carter was generous with his collection of Ponca City and Kaw

  County photographs. I hope that they, and the reader as well, will

  understand that this book of mine is a Ponca City (and indeed a Home

  Front and a War) of the Mind, and that all digressions from the ascer-

  tainable facts, whether intentional or not, are entirely my own.

  Many of the learned and curious correspondents, if that’s the word,

  who read and comment on my online journal went in search of answers

  to questions I posed there, like the source of the phrase “Git for home,

  Bruno!” and the price of condoms in 1944 (about $1.50 for a tin of

  three; they found pictures, too). To LSB I owe the knowledge and

  understanding I have of what became of people with disabilities at that

  time, and before and after, which is at the heart of this fiction.

  About the Author

  JOHN CROWLEY lives in the hills above the

  Connecticut River in northern Massachusetts

  with his wife and twin daughters. He is the

  author of ten previous novels as well as the

  short fiction collection Novelties & Souvenirs.

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  ALSO BY JOHN CROWLEY

  Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land

  The Translator

  Little, Big

  THE ÆGYPT CYCLE

  The Solitudes

  Love & Sleep

  Dæmonomania

  Endless Things

  OTHERWISE: THREE NOVELS

  The Deep

  Beasts

  Engine Summer

  Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction

  In Other Words: Essays and Reviews

  Credits

  Designed by Kate Nichols

  Jacket design by Mary Schuck

  Jacket photograph © Mark Kauffman/Time & Life Pictures/Getty

  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are

  drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.

  Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely

  coincidental.

  FOUR FREEDOMS. Copyright © 2009 by John Crowley. All rights reserved

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  Document Outline

  Title Page

  Dedication Page

  Contents

  Prelude

  Part One

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Part Two

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Part Three

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Part Four

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Recessional

  Afterword

  About the Author

  Also by John Crowley

  Credits

  Copyright Notice

  About the Publisher

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