Oxygen

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Copyright © Andrew Miller 2001

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All characters in this novel are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

First published in England by Hodder and Stoughton.

From Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by David Young.

Copyright © 1978 by W. W. Norton & Inc.

Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Miller, Andrew, 1961–

Oxygen/Andrew Miller.—1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-15-100721-7

ISBN 0-15-602740-2 (pbk.)

1. Terminally ill parents—Fiction. 2. Hungarians—France—Fiction. 3. Mothers and sons—Fiction. 4. Paris (France)—Fiction. 5. Translators—Fiction. 6. Dramatists—Fiction. 7. England—Fiction. 8. Actors—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6063.13564 099 2002

823'.914—dc21 2001051459

eISBN 978-0-544-12799-9

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