By a Slow River (17 page)
PHILIPPE CLAUDEL
By a Slow River
Philippe Claudel was born in 1962. Before becoming a novelist, he was a teacher and a screenwriter. He lives in France.
FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, JUNE 2007
Translation copyright © 2006 by Hoyt Rogers
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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. Any resemblance to
actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Claudel, Philippe, [date]
[Ames grises, English]
By a slow river / Philippe Claudel; translated from the French by Hoyt Rogers.
—1st American ed.
p. cm.
1. Rogers, Hoyt. II. Title.
PQ2663.L31148A4413 2006
843’.92—dc22
2005044628
eISBN: 978-0-307-42513-3
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