Dust on the Sea

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Steven Kroll — friend, confidant, editor, and an author himself, who helped form this story.

Patricia Doolittle — with astonishing patience she copied all the pages many times over.

Tia Cronin — who helped by critically reading and commenting on an early version of this manuscript.

Edward Beach — my son, who read and criticized the manuscript and in the process inserted much of his own philosophic, poetic nature.

Hugh Beach — my other son, who also carefully went over every word and made many thoughtful comments in the knowledgeable way I have come to value so.

Ingrid — my daughter, known as Ping, whose happy spirit and joie de vivre meant so much during the difficult days of composition.

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Martin Clancy, Bill Hatch, and Bruce Barr, the three tenders of the boiler room, to whose encouragement, thoughtful suggestions, and tactful criticism I owe such a great deal.