Authors: William Lashner
Falls the Shadow (41 page)
The Support Center for Child Advocates in Philadelphia, with the aid of hundreds of volunteer lawyers, offers free legal and social services to Philadelphia’s abused, neglected, and medically needy children. I was honored to be one of those lawyers. In this book, Victor was winging his pro bono representation as best he could, but the volunteer attorneys working with the Support Center are given extensive training and ongoing support. The services the center provides to the city’s at-risk children are a wonder.
For her valuable assistance in the dental portions of this novel, along with helping me keep my teeth, I wish to thank Dr. Ruth S. Rosenberg, D.M.D. I may be a deep-seated antidentite, but she has kept my shoe flipping to a minimum, though I have left a few scuffs on her walls. I also wish to thank Wendy Sherman, my excellent agent, Dr. Andrew Gross, and, as always, my mother for their help with the manuscript, and Mark Pfeffer for lending me his name. Much credit for my work goes to Michael Morrison, Lisa Gallagher, Sharyn Rosenblum, and the whole gang at Morrow, and especially to my editor, the very brilliant and very tough Carolyn Marino, who was enthusiastic about my boy Bob from the beginning.
Finally, as always, I am nothing without my family, and so I thank them all, especially my dear wife, Pam.
A graduate of the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, William Lashner served as a trial attorney in the criminal division of the United States Justice Department. He Lives with his family near Philadelphia.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to reprint the excerpt from “The Hollow Men” in Collected Poems 1909–1962 by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1936 by Harcourt, Inc., copyright © 1964, 1983 by T. S. Eliot, reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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.
FALLS THE SHADOW
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ePub edition April 2005 ISBN 9780061742798
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lashner, William.
Falls the shadow / William Lashner.1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-072156-1
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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