Authors: Adam Mansbach

The Dead Run (28 page)

T
hanks to Richard Abate, Diana Gill, Victoria HÃ¤ggblom, Henry Kaplan, Matthew Kaplan, Victor Kaplan, Vivien Mansbach, Hawk Montego, and Vinnie Wilheim.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A
DAM
M
ANSBACH'S
books include the #1 international
bestseller
Go the F**k to Sleep
and the critically
acclaimed novels
Rage Is Back
,
Angry Black White Boy
, and
The End of the
Jews
, winner of the California Book Award. His work has appeared in
The New Yorker
, the
New
York Times Book Review
,
Esquire
,
The Believer
, Salon. com, and on National Public
Radio's
All Things Considered.

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ALSO BY ADAM MANSBACH

Rage Is Back

Go the Fuck to Sleep

The End of the Jews

Angry Black White Boy

Shackling Water

Genius B-Boy Cynics Getting Weeded in the Garden of Delights

CREDITS

Cover design by Adam Johnson

Cover photographs : Mountain Scene Â© Mimi Haddon/Getty Images ; Box Â© www.ginomaccanti.com/Getty Images ; Heart/Barbed Wire Â© Shutterstock Images

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE DEAD RUN
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ISBN 978-0-06-219965-2

Epub Edition OCTOBER 2013 ISBN 9780062199676

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