Falling Angels (29 page)

“All they had was a huge long shot, something like a five-hundred-to-one chance that she would be crowned queen.”

Falling Angels

© 1989 by Barbara Gowdy.

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First published in hardcover in Canada by Somerville House Publishing: 1989. First Harper Perennial Canada paperback edition: 2001. This paperback edition: 2007.

“How
Falling Angels
Took Flight,” by Liam Lacey. Reprinted in P.S. section with permission from
The Globe and Mail.
“The Feral Side of Fiction: Reading (and Writing with) Barbara Gowdy” © Marni Jackson 2006, originally published in
Descant
132, Volume 37, Number 1. Reprinted in P.S. section with permission. Written with the financial assistance of the Ontario Arts Council.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Gowdy, Barbara
Falling angels / Barbara Gowdy.

ISBN-13: 978-0-00-647508-8
ISBN-10: 0-00-647508-6

I. Tide.

PS8563.O883F34 2007 C813′-54
C2007-900071-1

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