This Beautiful Life (24 page)

I am very grateful to Jennifer Barth for her precision and intelligence, to Kristyn Keene for her early and sustaining support, to Elissa Schappell for her sharp eye and Denise Bosco for her gentle lens, and also to Christopher Beha, Morgan Moss, Brian DeLeeuw, Steven Estok, Chin-Sun Lee, Kate Rogan Monahan, and Lila MacLellan. Deepest thanks also go to my patient husband and in-house editor, Bruce Handy, and from the bottom of my heart to Sloan Harris, my most cherished reader.

About the Author

H
ELEN
S
CHULMAN
is the author of the novels
A Day at the Beach
,
P.S.
,
The Revisionist
, and
Out of
Time
, and the short story collection
Not a Free
Show
. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in
Vanity Fair
,
Time
,
Vogue
,
GQ
, the
Paris Review
, and the
New York
Times Book Review
. She is an associate professor of writing at The
New School in New York City, where she lives with her husband and two
children.

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Also by Helen Schulman

A Day at the Beach

P.S.

The Revisionist

Out of Time

Not a Free Show

Wanting a Child
(coedited with Jill Bialosky)

Credits

Cover design by Richard Ljoenes

Cover photograph Â© Dorling Kindersley/Getty

This book is a work of fiction. The
characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and
are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THIS BEAUTIFUL
LIFE.
Copyright Â© 2011 by Helen Schulman. All rights reserved under
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FIRST
EDITION

ISBN: 978-0-06-202438-1

EPub Edition Â© AUGUST 2011 ISBN:
9780062024381

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