Gun, with Occasional Music

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A HARVEST BOOK • HARCOURT, INC.

ORLANDO AUSTIN NEW YORK SAN DIEGO TORONTO LONDON

Copyright © 1994 by Jonathan Lethem

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lethem, Jonathan.

Gun, with occasional music/Jonathan Lethem.—1st Harvest ed.

p. cm.—(A Harvest book)

ISBN 0-15-602897-2 (pbk.)

1. Private investigators—California—Oakland—Fiction. 2. Oakland (Calif.) I. Title.

PS3562.E8544G86 2003

813’.54—dc21 2003047827

Text set in Minion

Designed by Scott Piehl

Printed in the United States of America

First Harvest edition 2003

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