by Ted Mooney
After a time she said, “I almost never think about the past anymore.”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
DURING THE WRITING OF THIS BOOK, I was aided immeasurably by the generosity of a number of people, most especially: Betsy Baker, Bertille de Baudinière, Natalie Bataille, Dajana Cesic, Zhenya Edelmann, Gary Fisketjon, Fran Gordon, Bruce Levine, Kathryn Maris, Arthur Perkins, Béatrice Pire, Anne Rochette, Wade Saunders, and Masha Yatskova. My thanks to all of them.
—TM
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ted Mooney is the author of three previous novels, Easy Travel to Other Planets, Traffic and Laughter, and Singing into the Piano. He was senior editor at Art in America for over thirty years and now teaches a graduate seminar at Yale University School of Art. His fiction has appeared in Esquire, Granta, and the New American Review, and he has received grants from both the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Ingram-Merrill Foundation. He lives in New York City.
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Copyright © 2010 by Ted Mooney
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mooney, Ted.
The same river twice / by Ted Mooney. —1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-59369-6
I. Title.
PS3563.O567S36 2010
813’.54—dc22 2009041691
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.
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