In One Person

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

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Irving, John.

In one person : a novel / John Irving.

p. cm.

1. Domestic fiction. 2. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

PS3559.R8I5 2012

813’.54—dc23 2011039707

ISBN 978-1-4516-6412-6 (print)

ISBN 978-1-4516-6415-7 (eBook)