A Perfect Stranger
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Also by Roxana Robinson
Sweetwater
This Is My Daughter
Asking for Love
A Glimpse of Scarlet
Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life
Summer Light
A Perfect Stranger is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places,
and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or
are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or
persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
2006 Random House Trade Paperback Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Roxana Robinson
Reading group guide copyright © 2006 by Random House, Inc.
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“The Face-lift,” “Treatment,” “Family Christmas,” and “Assistance”
first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, “Intersection” in Ms. magazine,
“At the Beach” in Good Housekeeping, “Blind Man” in Dædalus,
“A Perfect Stranger” in OneStory.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Robinson, Roxana.
A perfect stranger: and other stories / Roxana Robinson.
p. cm.
Contents: Family Christmas—The face-lift—Assistance—
Choosing sides—At the beach—Blind man—The treatment—
Assez—Intersection—Shame—The football game—
Pilgrimage—A perfect stranger.
1. United States—Social life and customs—Fiction.
I. Title.
PS3568.O3152P47 2005
813’.54—dc22 2004059537
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eISBN: 978-0-307-43043-4
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