Man Camp (21 page)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks to my wonderful Random House editors: Lee Boudreaux, Laura Ford, and Daniel Menaker; and to the stellar marketing/ publicity team: Kate Blum, Avideh Bashirrad, and Jennifer Jones; to Margot Meyers and Heather Schroder at ICM Talent Agency; to the Benedict family, who graciously let me stay on their dairy farm; to my talented writer friends Martha McPhee and Sara Powers, who inspired and encouraged me; and to the following people who helped me in a myriad of ways: Chris Brewster, Malabar Brewster, Paul Brodeur, Lea Carpenter, Milane Christiansen, Julie Costanzo, Jodi Delnickas, Carole Desanti, Karla Eoff, Carole Fiorino, Rachel Hazen, Breton Hornblower, Maura Kelly, Megan Kline, Sylvie Rabineau, Linda Reisman, Kim Roberson, the Ryan family (especially Timmy and Nick), Robbin Schiff, Samantha Schnee, Elizabeth Sheinkman, Jane Simmons, Maggie Simmons, Garth Wingfield, and Janet Wygal. And a special thanks to Eilene Zimmerman, who read every version of each chapter more than once.
Above all, thanks to Timothy Ryan, without whose love and support I could never have written this book.
ADRIENNE BRODEUR is the founding editor of
Zoetrope: All-Story.
She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. Visit her web-site at
www.gotomancamp.com
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This 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 Adrienne Brodeur
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.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Brodeur, Adrienne.
Man camp: a novel / Adrienne Brodeur.
p. cm.
1. Self-actualization (Psychology)—Fiction. 2. Man-woman relationships—Fiction. 3. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. 4. West Virginia—Fiction. 5. Family farms—Fiction. 6. Land tenure—Fiction. 7. Friendship—Fiction. 8. Farm life— Fiction. 9. Sex role—Fiction. 10. Camps—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3602.R6346M36 2005
813’.6—dc22 2004051470
eISBN: 978-0-307-41597-4
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