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SUCCESS STORIES

ISBN 0-06-092719-4 (paperback)

Explores the ethos of rampant materialism in a group of contemporary moral fables.

TRAILERPARK

ISBN 0-06-097706-X (paperback)

A portrait of New England life that is at once dark, witty, and revealing.

THE BOOK OF JAMAICA

ISBN 0-06-097707-8 (paperback)

“A compelling novel… Banks achieves effects at once beautiful and brutal. A virtuoso performance.”—Publishers Weekly

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COPYRIGHT

THE DARLING. Copyright © 2004 by Russell Banks. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
    Banks, Russell.
        The darling / Russell Banks.
            p. cm.

    ISBN 0-06-019735-8
    1. Americans—Liberia—Fiction. 2. Human-animal relationships— Fiction. 3. Animals—Treatment—Fiction. 4. Endangered species—Fiction. 5. Women—Liberia—Fiction. 6. Chimpanzees—Fiction. 7. Liberia— Fiction. I. Title.

     PS3552.A49D37 2004

     813'.54—dc22

2004047431

ISBN-10: 0-06-095735-2 (pbk.)
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-095735-3 (pbk.)
EPub Edition © JULY 2011 ISBN: 9780062123213

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Acknowledgments

Praise

Other Works

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Copyright

About the Publisher

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Acknowledgments

Praise

Other Works

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Copyright

About the Publisher

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