The Merry Month of May (50 page)

Authors: James Jones

Tags: #Fiction, #Literary, #Art, #Typography

Jones with fellow National Book Award winners Marianne Moore, Rachel Carson, and John Mason Brown at the Hotel Commodor in New York City.

Jones with his son, Jamie, and daughter, Kaylie, in 1966. The family was visiting Skiathos, Greece, where Jones had bought a piece of land in hopes of building a house—before ultimately deciding that the area was too quiet.

Jones at Florida International University in Miami, where he taught fiction writing during the 1974—1975 school year.

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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, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Grateful acknowledgment to Princeton University Press to quote from
The I Ching: or Book of Changes
, translated by Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes, Bollingen Series XIX (copyright © 1950, 1967 by Bollingen Foundation), Princeton University Press, 3
^rded. 1967.

cover design by Karen Horton

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