For their inestimable help, the author wishes to thank Amanda Urban, Ann Patty, Jennifer Smith, Todd Kumble, the MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Privileges is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2010 by Jonathan Dee
All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dee,
Jonathan.
The privileges: a novel / Jonathan
Dee.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-58836-920-8
1. Rich people—Fiction. 2. Family—Fiction.
3. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. 4. Domestic fiction. I.
Title.
PS3554.E355P75
2010
813′.54—dc22 2009012900
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