American Stranger
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Acknowledgments
My thanks to Joseph Olshan are great for asking me if I was working on a novel, for reading, for making suggestions for linking scenes that make him, I like to think, as much the author as I am, and for seeing the novel through all its stages.
My life is filled with coincidences, and one I am particularly fond of is that the splendid copyeditor of this novel has the nonfictional name of Nancy Green, to whom all thanks.
And many thanks to everyone at Delphinium.
About the Author
David Plante grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, within a French-Canadian parish palisaded by its language, a dialect that dates back to the first French colonists, in the early seventeenth century, in La Nouvelle France—or what was then most of North America. His background is very similar to that of Jack Kerouac, who was brought up in a French-speaking parish in Lowell, Massachusetts. Plante has been inspired to write novels rooted in La Nouvelle France, most notably in The Family, which was nominated for the National Book Award. His renowned Difficult Women, a nonfiction work that profiles Jean Rhys, Sonia Orwell, and Germaine Greer, was reissued by New York Review Books in 2017. Plante has dual nationality, American and British, and resides in Lucca, Italy, and Athens, Greece.
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