Mister Pip (27 page)

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MISTER PIP

First Published by The Text Publishing Company, Australia, 2006

A Dial Press Book / August 2007

Published by The Dial Press

A Division of Random House, Inc.

New York, New York

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved

Copyright © 2006 by Lloyd Jones

The Dial Press is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jones, Lloyd, 1955–

Mister Pip / Lloyd Jones.

p. cm.

1. Books and reading—Fiction. 2. Storytelling—Fiction. 3. Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea)—Fiction. I. Title.

PR9639.3.J644M57 2007

823'.914—dc22                                                      2007005224

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