The Romantic (40 page)

“Masterful narration that moves seamlessly back and forth in time….
[The Romantic]
resonates deeply.”

—Los Angeles Times

The Romantic

© 2003 by Barbara Gowdy.

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First published in Canada in hardcover by HarperFlamingCanada, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd: 2003. First trade paperback edition: 2004. This paperback edition: 2007.

Biographical quotations about J.S. Bach are from a 1972 McGraw-Hill paperback edition of Eva and Sydney Grew’s book
Bach,
copyright © 1947 by J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. The English versions of Rimbaud’s poems are from
Arthur Rimbaud, Collected Poems
, translated by Oliver Bernard (Penguin Classics 1962, revised edition 1997) copyright? Oliver Bernard, 1962,1997, and are used by permission. “Alone with her words,” by Sandra Martin, reprinted in P.S. section with permission from
The Globe and Mail.

National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Gowdy, Barbara
The romantic: a novel / Barbara Gowdy. –

ISBN -
10
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978-1-443-40228-6

ISBN
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:978-1-443-40228-6

1. Title.

PS8563.0883R64 2007 c813.54 C2007-900073-8

RRD 987654321