Cottonwood (39 page)
Authors: Scott Phillips
SCOTT PHILLIPS
is the national bestselling author of
The Walkaway
and
The Ice Harvest,
which was a finalist for the Hammett Prize, the Edgar Award, and the Anthony Award. He was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, and lived for many years in France. He now lives with his wife and daughter in St. Louis, Missouri.
Visit the author’s website at
www.scottphillipsauthor.com
.
Cottonwood
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the productions of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
2005 Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition
Copyright © 2004 by Scott Phillips
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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eISBN : 978-0-307-41482-3
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