Loner (29 page)

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people,
or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events
or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2016 by Teddy Wayne

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wayne, Teddy, author.

Title: Loner : a novel / Teddy Wayne.

Description: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015044742 | ISBN 9781501107894 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501107900 (softcover) | ISBN 9781501107917 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: College students—Fiction. | Man-woman relationships—Fiction. | Psychological fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Psychological. | FICTION / Coming of Age. | GSAFD: Black humor (Literature)

Classification: LCC PS3623.A98 L66 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23 LC record
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ISBN 978-1-5011-0789-4

ISBN 978-1-5011-0791-7 (ebook)