The Twyning (46 page)
Authors: Terence Blacker
Phil Drabble’s chapter “Staffords and Baiting Sports” in
The Book of the Dog
(1948), edited by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald, was useful for the sections in the Cock Inn.
From the days when it was but a ratling of an idea to its publication, this book has been lucky to have had great and encouraging champions. I am profoundly grateful to Caroline Sheldon, Xan Blacker, Paul Sidey, Georgina Capel, Anthony Cheetham, and my first and bravest reader, Angela Sykes.
It has been a joy and a pleasure to be edited by the brilliant Carter Hasegawa at Candlewick Press. I thank him for his wisdom and perceptiveness, and the team at Candlewick for their enthusiasm and professionalism.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.
Copyright © 2013 by Terence Blacker
Cover photograph of man and woman copyright © 2014 by André Burian/Corbis
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First U.S. electronic edition 2014
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2013955665
ISBN 978-0-7636-6902-7 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-7636-7420-5 (electronic)
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