Hot Springs (36 page)
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental. Published by Tin House Books, Portland, Oregon, and New York, New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Becker, Geoffrey, 1959-
Hot springs : a novel / Geoffrey Becker. -- 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-0-982-50483-3
1. Parenthood--Fiction. 2. Self-actualization (Psychology) in women--Fiction.
I. Title.
PS3552.E2553H68 2010
813’.54--dc22
2009038276
A portion of this novel has been adapted from a short story, “Hot Springs,” originally published in
Ploughshares
magazine.
Ploughshares
magazine.
“Those Winter Sundays”. Copyright 1966 by Robert Hayden, from COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT HAYDEN by Robert Hayden, edited by Frederick Glaysher. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
First U.S. edition 2010
Interior design Janet Parker
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