by Amelia Gray
I’m grateful for the institutional and financial support from the New York Public Library, TBWAChiatDay LA, Texas State University, Vermont Studio Center, and the institutions and events that have hosted me. And lastly, gratitude to Lauren Goldstein and Cassie Riger and to my family, near and far.
A Note About the Author
Amelia Gray is the author of several books, including AM/PM, Museum of the Weird, THREATS, and Gutshot. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and VICE. She has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and is a winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest. She lives in Los Angeles. You can sign up for email updates here.
ALSO BY AMELIA GRAY
Gutshot
THREATS
Museum of the Weird
AM/PM
CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Prologue
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Acknowledgments
A Note About the Author
Also by Amelia Gray
Copyright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Copyright © 2017 by Amelia Gray
All rights reserved
First edition, 2017
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gray, Amelia, 1982– author.
Title: Isadora / Amelia Gray.
Description: First edition.|New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016045035|ISBN 9780374279981 (hardcover)|ISBN 9780374712587 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Duncan, Isadora, 1877–1927—Fiction.|Women dancers—Fiction.|GSAFD: Biographical fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3607.R387 I82 2017|DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016045035
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