The Curiosity (43 page)

Authors: Stephen Kiernan

BOOK: The Curiosity

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STEPHEN P. KIERNAN is a journalist and a graduate of Middlebury College, with an M.A. from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and an M.F.A. in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has written two works of nonfictionâ
Last Rights
and
Authentic Patriotism
âthat promote better end-of-life care and civic engagement, and his writing and journalism have been recognized with numerous awards, including the Brechner Center's Freedom of Information Award, the Scripps Howard Award for Distinguished Service to the First Amendment, and the George Polk Award. He lives in Vermont with his two sons.
The Curiosity
is his first novel, and film rights have been bought by 20th Century Fox.

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Grateful acknowledgment is given to Ice Nine Publishing Company for permission to reprint four lines from the Grateful Dead song “Ripple,” lyrics by Robert Hunter, copyright Â© by Ice Nine Publishing. All rights reserved.

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE CURIOSITY
. Copyright Â© 2013 by Stephen P. Kiernan. 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.

FIRST EDITION

ISBN 978-0-06-222106-3

EPub Edition JULY 2013 ISBN: 9780062221087

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