The Same River Twice (25 page)

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Copyright © 1993 by Chris Offutt

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First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition 2003

Originally published in hardcover in 1993 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Offutt, Chris.

The same river twice: a memoir/Chris Offutt.

p. cm.

1. Offutt, Chris. 2. United States—Biography. I. Title.

CT275.035A3  1993

973—dc20 [B]

ISBN 0-7432-2949-5

ISBN 978-1-4391-2919-7 (eBook)

The lines from “The Town We Know and Leave Behind, The Rivers We Carry With Us” are reprinted from
White Center: Poems
by Richard Hugo, by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright © 1980 by Richard Hugo.