Lucy (32 page)
Authors: Laurence Gonzales
Tags: #Thrillers, #United States, #Biotechnology, #Genetic Engineering, #General, #Congolese (Democratic Republic), #Fiction, #Humanity, #Science, #Medical, #Congolese (Democratic Republic) - United States, #Psychological, #Technological, #Primatologists
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2010 by Laurence Gonzales
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to The Edna St. Vincent Millay Society for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Elegy” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, copyright © 1921, 1948 by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Reprinted by permission of Elizabeth Barnett, Literary Executor, The Edna St. Vincent Millay Society.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gonzales, Laurence, [date]
Lucy : a novel / by Laurence Gonzales. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
“This is a Borzoi book.”
eISBN: 978-0-307-59366-5
1. Genetic engineering—Fiction. 2. Primatologists—Fiction. 3. Congolese (Democratic Republic)—United States—Fiction. 4. Biotechnology—Fiction. 5. Humanity—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3557. o467L83 2010
813′.54—dc22 2010003898
This 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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