Cross Dressing (40 page)
Authors: Bill Fitzhugh
Michael Maren for permission to use facts from his
Newsweek
article, “The Faces of Famine.” He is the author of
The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity
(Free Press, 1997).
William Finnegan for permission to use facts from his
New Yorker
article, “The Invisible War.” He is the author of
Cold New World: Growing Up in Harder Country
(Random House/Modern Library);
A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique
(University of California Press), and other books.
Tracy Weber for permission to use facts from her
Los Angeles Times
article, “Caretakers Routinely Drug Foster Children.”
Colin Nickerson for permission to use facts from his
Boston Globe
article, “Worldwide Relief Efforts Booming.”
Jennifer Miller, Leonard Gershe, and David Victor Hawkins for their input.
Finally, thanks to the dedicated professionals at the world-renowned Glenlivet Distillery. It’s been a pleasure to agree to feature their fine products at several strategic points in the following tale.
BILL FITZHUGH is the author of seven novels. To the best of his knowledge he has never broken the fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, or ninth commandments. Like Kingsley Amis, Bill is Catholic mainly in the sense that it’s the church he currently does not attend. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, in whom he has a great deal of faith.
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Praise for Bill Fitzhugh’s
Cross Dressing
“Where Bill Fitzhugh earned his Ph.D. in street smarts is a mystery. The wicked sense of humor he must have been born with…. Lapsed Catholics should proceed to the front of the line.”
—
Dallas Morning News
“Fans of
The Simpsons
might keep
Cross Dressing
in mind during the summer rerun season.”
—
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A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2000 by William Morrow and a mass-market edition was published in 2002 by HarperTorch, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
CROSS DRESSING
. Copyright © 2000 by Reduviidae, Inc.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Fitzhugh, Bill.
Cross dressing / Bill Fitzhugh.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-380-97756-7 (acid-free paper)
I. Title.
PS3556.I8552 C76 2000
813′.54—dc21 99058658
ISBN 0-06-081524-8 (pbk.)
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