How Not to Die Alone

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

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Copyright © 2019 by Richard Roper

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Roper, Richard, author.

Title: How not to die alone / Richard Roper.

Description: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2019.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018049551 | ISBN 9780525539889 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780525539902 (epub)

Classification: LCC PR6118.O643 H69 2019 | DDC 823 / .92—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018049551

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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