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DIANE HAMMOND has pursued careers in writing, editing, and public relations, and was awarded a literary fellowship by the Oregon Arts Council. Her first novel,
Going to Bend,
received high critical acclaim, and her work has appeared in such magazines as
Yankee, Mademoiselle,
and
Washington Review.
She and her family live in Los Angeles, California.
ALSO BY DIANE HAMMOND
Going to Bend
Homesick Creek
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
2006 Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Diane Hammond
Reading group guide copyright © 2006 by Random House, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random
House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Hammond, Diane Coplin.
Homesick creek / by Diane Hammond.
p. cm.
1. Oregon—Fiction. 2. Women—Fiction.
3. Female friendship—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3608.A6956H66 2005
813’6—dc22
2004063472
eISBN: 978-0-307-42362-7
v3.0