Authors: Maggie Pouncey
Tags: #Fathers - Death, #Poets, #Psychological Fiction, #Critics, #Fathers, #General, #Fiction - General, #Literary, #Psychological, #Fathers and daughters, #American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +, #Young women, #Fiction
Perfect Reader (31 page)
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Maggie Pouncey was born in New York City and grew up there and in Amherst, Massachusetts, and New Haven, Connecticut. She received her B.A. and M.F.A. from Columbia University. She has taught writing at Columbia, the Bard Prison Initiative, and the New York City nonprofit Girls Write Now. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband. This is her first novel.
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.
Copyright © 2010 by Maggie Pouncey
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pouncey, Maggie.
Perfect reader / Maggie Pouncey.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-37927-6
1. Young women—Fiction. 2. Critics—Fiction. 3. Poets—Fiction. 4. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 5. Fathers—Death—Fiction. 6. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS3616.O8575P47 2010
813′.6—dc22 2009029991
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