Lone Star (69 page)

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Excerpt from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” from COLLECTED POEMS 1909–1962 by T. S. Eliot. Copyright 1936 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Copyright
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renewed 1964 by Thomas Stearns Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

This book was first published in Australia in 2015 by HarperCollins Publishers.

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.

LONE STAR.
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FIRST U.S. EDITION

ISBN 978-0-06-209815-3

EPub Edition November 2015 ISBN 9780062098160

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