Rivka Galchen - American Innovations

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First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2014

First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2014

Copyright © Rivka Galchen 2014

Cover photograph © Samantha T. Photography/Getty Images

Rivka Galchen asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

These stories previously appeared, in slightly different form, in the following publications: Harper’s Magazine (‘Once an Empire’), New Yorker (‘The Lost Order’, ‘The Region of Unlikeness’, ‘Sticker Shock’ as ‘Appreciation’, The Entire Northern Side Was Covered with Fire’ and ‘The Late Novels of Gene Hackman’), Open City (‘Wild Berry Blue’) and The Walrus (‘Real Estate’).

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

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

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Source ISBN: 9780007548781

Ebook Edition © May 2014 ISBN: 9780007548798

Version: 2015-05-26

For Georgie and Yosefa

CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

The Lost Order

The Region of Unlikeness

Sticker Shock

American Innovations

Wild Berry Blue

The Entire Northern Side Was Covered with Fire

Real Estate

Dean of the Arts

The Late Novels of Gene Hackman

Once an Empire

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Rivka Galchen

About the Publisher

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