Caitlin Kiernan - Beowulf

I would also like to thank the following persons and institutions: Poppy Z. Brite, for lending an ear; Neil Gaiman, for trusting me with his vision; my literary agent, Merrilee Heifetz; my editor on this book, Will Hinton and Jennifer Brehl at HarperCollins; Jennifer Lee and James Shimkus; Sonya Taaffe, for Latin and commiseration; Byron White; the staff of the Robert W. Woodruff Library (Emory University); Claire Reilly-Shapiro and Albert Araneo at Writer’s House (NYC); David J. Schow, for encouraging my investigation of the striking parallels between Ridley Scott’s Alien and Beowulf ; and most of all, Kathryn A. Pollnac. This book was written on a Macintosh iBook and iMac.

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Mobipocket Reader August 2007 ISBN 978-0-06-154340-1

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