Wanting

Copyright

Copyright © 2008 by Richard Flanagan.

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Originally published in Australia in 2008 as a Knopf book, published by Random House Australia Pty Ltd.

First published in Canada by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd in an original trade paperback edition: 2009.

This Harper Perennial trade paperback edition: 2010

Epigraph from Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, published by Vintage.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Flanagan, Richard, 1961–

Wanting / Richard Flanagan.

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PR9619.3.F53W35 2010 823’.914 C2010-900801-4