Марк Лэйдлоу - The 37th Mandala

He’s mine.

The thirty-seventh mandala prepared to fight for its catch.

Marc Laidlaw lives in San Francisco. He is the author of four previous novels and numerous short stories. He will turn thirty-seven in the coming year.

Marc Laidlaw published his first short stories while still a teenager, and he has gone on to write four acclaimed novels: Kalifornia , The Orchid Eater , Dad’s Nuke , and Neon Lotus . He lives with his family in San Francisco.

Jacket design by Alan Dingman

Jacket painting by Ron Walotsky

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Dad’s Nuke

Neo Lotus

Kalifornia

The Orchid Eater

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE 37th MANDALA. Copyright © 1996 by Marc Laidlaw. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

Interior art by Harry S. Robins.

Copyright © 1996 by Harry S. Robins.

Edited by Gordon Van Gelder

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Laidlaw, Marc.

The 37th Mandala / Marc Laidlaw.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-312-13021-X (hardcover)

1. Title.

PS3562.A333A615 1995

813’.54—dc20

95-15720

CIP

First edition: February 1996

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