The Return: A Novel (58 page)

The Return. Copyright © 2013 by Michael Gruber. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Cover art credit © Christopher Sergio

Lines from “Return” by Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot Weinberger, from
The Collected Poems 1957–1987,
copyright © Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gruber, Michael, 1940–

The return: a novel / Michael Gruber.—First edition.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-8050-9129-8 (hardback)

1.  Book editors—Fiction.   2.  Revenge—Fiction.   [1.  New York (N.Y)—Fiction.]

I. Title.

PS3607.R68R48 2013

813'.6—dc23                                                      2012045307

e-ISBN 978-1-4668-0502-6

First Edition: September 2013

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel either are produts of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.