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Lisa Gornick
is the author of the novels
Tinderbox
and
A Private Sorcery
. She holds a B.A. from Princeton and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Yale, and is a graduate of the writing program at NYU and the psychoanalytic training program at Columbia. New York City is her home. You can sign up for email updates
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ALSO BY
LISA GORNICK

Tinderbox

A Private Sorcery

 

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

1961

Instructions to Participant

1975

Louisa Meets Bear

1978

Lion Eats Cheetah Eats Weasel Eats Mouse

1990

Misto

Priest Pond

Raya in Rapahu

1992

Parachute

2001

Conchita

2003

Barberini Princess

2009

Nate in Bed

Acknowledgments

A Note About the Author

Also by Lisa Gornick

Copyright

 

Sarah Crichton Books

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

Copyright © 2015 by Lisa Gornick

All rights reserved

First edition, 2015

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint lyrics from “Woodstock.” Words and music by Joni Mitchell copyright © 1969 (renewed) Crazy Crow Music. All rights administered by Sony / ATV Music Publishing, 8 Music Square West, Nashville, TN 37203. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Gornick, Lisa, 1956–

        [Short stories. Selections]

        Louisa meets bear / Lisa Gornick. — First edition.

            p. cm

        ISBN 978-0-374-19208-2 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-374-71026-2 (ebook)

        I. Gornick, Lisa, 1956– Instructions to participant.   II. Title.

    PS3607.O598 A6 2015

    813'.6—dc23

2014029306

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