Loving, Faithful Animal

by Josephine Rowe

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  Cover design by Natalie Winter

  Typeset in 12/16.5 pt Adobe Garamond Pro by Post Pre-press Group, Brisbane

  Author photograph by Jason Montano

  Printed in Australia by McPherson’s Printing Group

  Epigraph taken from ‘Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong’ by Ocean Vuong,

  published in The New Yorker, 4 May 2015. Reproduced with kind permission

  of the author. Quote on page 48 taken from ‘Come-By-Chance’ by

  Banjo Paterson, published in The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses,

  Angus & Robertson, 1895. Quote on page 170 taken from ‘Dockery and Son’

  by Philip Larkin, published in The Whitsun Weddings, Faber & Faber, London, 1964.

  Reproduced with kind permission of Faber & Faber.

  This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

  This project is supported by the

  Victorian Government through

  Creative Victoria.

  National Library of Australia

  Cataloguing-in-Publication data is available at http://catalogue.nla.gov.au

  ISBN

  978 0 7022 5396 6 (pbk)

  978 0 7022 5699 8 (ePDF)

  978 0 7022 5700 1 (ePub)

  978 0 7022 5701 8 (Kindle)

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