The Rationing

Copyright

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

Copyright © 2019 by Charles Wheelan

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

Names: Wheelan, Charles J., author.

Title: The rationing : a novel / Charles Wheelan.

Description: First edition. | New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]

Identifiers: LCCN 2018054654 | ISBN 9781324001485 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Political fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3623.H429 R38 2019 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

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