ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First, thanks to Will Menaker, my editor, who saw this book drinking alone at the far end of a dingy bar and sidled up to it and bought it a drink and took it home, and then to everybody else at Liveright and W. W. Norton who welcomed it into the family despite its appalling lack of pedigree. Thanks to my agent, Gail Hochman, who not only took me up for no good reason but also worries whether anyone is meeeting me for dinner when I’m visiting New York. My parents, who still ask me, “Are you writing?” Thanks to Josh, Nate, Alex. and the other residents and transients of the apartment above the satanic daycare, who both read and inspired the early drafts of this book. Last and most, to John Allen, without whose friendship and insatiable interest in everything weird and appalling and otherworldy I never would have written this at all.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jacob Bacharach is a writer and nonprofit administrator living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has a BA in English and creative writing from Oberlin College and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. He is not, to the best of our knowledge, a shape-shifting reptiloid or a descendent of the Merovingian dynasty. In his spare time, he cooks, rides bikes, and occasionally plays the violin badly. He prefers “experiencer” to “abductee.” This is his first novel.
COPYRIGHT
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The bend of the world : a novel / Jacob Bacharach. — First Edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-87140-682-8 (hardcover)
1. Middle-aged men—Pennsylvania—Pittsburgh—Fiction. 2. Social skills—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
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