After Her (32 page)

Authors: Joyce Maynard

BOOK: After Her

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J
OYCE
M
AYNARD
has been a reporter for the
New York Times
,
a magazine journalist, a radio commentator, and a syndicated columnist, as well
as the author of seven previous novels, including
To Die
For
,
Labor Day
, and
The Good Daughters
, and four books of nonfiction. Her bestselling
memoir,
At Home in the World
, has been translated
into fourteen languages. Maynard's bestselling novel
Labor
Day
is being adapted for film by Academy Awardânominated director
Jason Reitman and stars Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin. Maynard makes her home in Mill Valley, California.

Also by Joyce Maynard

Fiction

The Good Daughters

Labor Day

The Usual Rules

The Cloud Chamber

Where Love Goes

To Die For

Baby Love

Nonfiction

Looking Back

Domestic Affairs

At Home in the World

Internal Combustion

Credits

Cover photograph Â© by Elisabeth Ansley/Trevillion Images

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.

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AFTER HER
. Copyright Â© 2013 by Joyce Maynard. 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 978-0-06-225739-0

EPub Edition SEPTEMBER 2013 ISBN: 9780062257413

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