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THE ANGEL ON THE ROOF
. Copyright © 2000 by Russell Banks. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Some of the previously uncollected stories in this volume were published in the following periodicals:
Esquire
(“Plains of Abraham,” “Djinn,” “Lobster Night”);
The Village Voice Literary Supplement
(“The Visit”);
The Boston Globe Magazine
(“Xmas”);
Conjunctions
(“The Moor”);
GQ
(“Cow-Cow”);
Plough-shares
(“Quality Time”).

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the University of Illinois Press for permission to reprint “Indisposed,” “The Caul,” and “The Rise of the Middle Class.” From
The New World
. Copyright © 1978 by Russell Banks. Used with permission of the University of Illinois Press.

The previously collected stories were originally published in the following volumes:
Searching for Survivors
(New York: Fiction Collective/Braziller, 1975);
Trailerpark
(New York: HarperCollins, 1981);
Success Stories
(New York: HarperCollins, 1986).

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2000 by HarperCollins Publishers.

FIRST PERENNIAL EDITION PUBLISHED 2001.

The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

Banks, Russell.

The angel on the roof : the stories of Russell Banks.— 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-06-017396-3

I.Title.

PS3552.A49 A85 2000

813'.54—dc21

ISBN 0–06–093125–6 (pbk.)

99-057738