Backward-Facing Man

by Don Silver

  Acknowledgments

  I would like to thank Bob Miller and Molly Russakoff for their careful reading and honest input over the course of several drafts; Deb Abrahamson and Sarah Silver for their meticulous edits; Liam Rector and the staff and faculty at the Bennington Writing Seminars for lighting the footpath; Dan Halpern, Amanda Urban, Adam Shapiro, Fondue Mike Siegel, Sabra Hammond, Dan Booth-Cohen, Frank Doyle, Willie Reagan, Richard Scher, Ted Simon, Phil Tankle, and Seth Weber for their help; my parents, Janet and Bob, and my children, Scott, Sarah, Bec, and Jenna, for their love and support; and especially my wife, Anne Wainer, for inhabiting this imaginary world with me.

  About the Author

  For ten years, DON SILVER was the president of a manufacturing company in Philadelphia. In 1999, after getting his master of fine arts from Bennington College, he left corporate America to become a full-time writer. This is his first novel.

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  Credits

  JACKET Design and Photograph by David High and Ralph Del Pozzo, High Design, NYC

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  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. The characters and events in this book, with the exception of the extraordinary story of Patty Hearst and the SLA, are the products of imagination. I’ve taken the liberty of introducing theories about the U.S. government and some of the people whose stories connect up with the SLA, or who were on the periphery, theories that are not necessarily true or, at least, have not been proven.

  BACKWARD-FACING MAN. Copyright © 2005 by Don Silver. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  EPub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2005 ISBN: 9780061852947

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Silver, Don, 1956–

  Backward-facing man: a novel/Don Silver.

  p. cm

  ISBN-10: 0-06-081928-6

  ISBN-13: 978-0-06-081928-6

  1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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