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Authors: Ben Sherwood

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

B
EN
S
HERWOOD
is senior broadcast producer of the
NBC Nightly News.
His nonfiction writing has appeared in many places, including
The New York Times, The Washington Post
, and the
Los Angeles Times.
Educated at Harvard and Oxford, he lives in New York, where he is at work on his next novel.

THE MAN WHO ATE THE 747 is being published in fifteen countries, including Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. The novel is also being adapted as a major motion picture from Bel Air Entertainment and Warner Brothers.

Visit the author’s website at
www.bensherwood.com
.

Watch for Ben Sherwood’s
remarkable new novel…

“I’ll
never
l
eave you.

After returning from the brink of death following a horrible car accident, that’s what Charlie St. Cloud had promised his younger brother.

He kept that promise all his life.

And then, much to his surprise, Charlie St. Cloud fell in love.

THE

DEATH

AND

LIFE

OF

CHARLIE

ST. CLOUD

A novel by
BEN SHERWOOD

To be published as a Bantam hardcover in 2003

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint:

Guinness World Records Ltd. for use of actual records from their various publications; lyrics from the song “The Nearness of You” by Ned Washington and Hoagy Carmichael, copyright © 1937, 1940 by Famous Music Corporation, copyright renewed 1964, 1967 by Famous Music Corporation; “LVI by Narihira” by Kenneth Rexroth, from ONE HUNDRED POEMS FROM THE JAPANESE, copyright © All Rights Reserved by New Directions Publishing Corporation. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation; “Love Walked In” by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, copyright ©1937, 1938 (renewed 1964, 1965) George Gershwin Music and Ira Gershwin Music. All Rights Administered by WB Music Corp. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. WARNER BROTHERS PUBLICATIONS U.S. INC., Miami, FL 33014.

This edition contains the complete text of the original trade paperback edition.
NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED.

THE MAN WHO ATE THE 747

A Bantam Book

PUBLISHING HISTORY

Bantam hardcover edition published September 2000
Bantam mass market edition / February 2002

All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2000 by Ben Sherwood

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 00-023713

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. For information address: Bantam Books.

eISBN: 978-0-307-42856-1

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