Problems with People
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david guterson
vintage contemporaries
Vintage Books A Division of Random House LLC New York
FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, MARCH 2015
Copyright © 2014 by David Guterson
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division o Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House o Canada Limited, Toronto, Penguin Random House companies. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alred A. Knop, a division o Random House LLC, New York, in 2014.Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage Contemporaries and colophon are trademarks o Random House LLC.Selected stories in this work originally appeared in the ollowing: “Hush” and “Paradise” in
The American Scholar
; “Shadow” in
Boulevard
; “Photograph” as “The Drowned Son” in
Harper’s
; “Pilanesberg” in
The Indiana Review
; “Hot Springs” and “Krassavitseh” in
Narrative
; “Tenant” in
The New England Review
; and “Politics” in
ZYZZYVA
.Grateul acknowledgment is made to Alred Music or permission to reprint an excerpt rom “Not to Touch the Earth,” words and music by the Doors. Copyright © 1968 (Renewed) by Doors Music Co. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission o Alred Music.This is a work o fction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product o the author’s imagination or are used fctitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.The Library o Congress has cataloged the Knop edition as ollows:Guterson, David.[Short stories. Selections]Problems with People : Stories / David Guterson. — First Edition.pages cmI. TitlesPS3557.U846A6 2014 813'.54— dc23 2013029700
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