ALSO BY JONATHAN CARROLL
The Land of Laughs
Voice of Our Shadow
Bones of the Moon
Sleeping in Flame
A Child Across the Sky
Black Cocktail
Outside the Dog Museum
After Silence
From the Teeth of Angels
The Panic Hand
Kissing the Beehive
The Marriage of Sticks
The Wooden Sea
White Apples
Glass Soup
The Ghost in Love
The Woman Who Married a Cloud
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jonathan Carroll is the author of eighteen novels and two story collections, including The Land of Laughs, The Wooden Sea, The Woman Who Married a Cloud, and The Ghost in Love. Past winner of a Pushcart Prize, the World Fantasy Award, and other awards, he lives in Vienna, Austria. He can be found at both www.jonathancarroll.com and on Facebook under “Jonathan Carroll.”
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
BATHING THE LION. Copyright © 2013 by Jonathan Carroll. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Based on a concept by Ryder Carroll
Cover photographs: hands by Hans Georg Merkel/Getty Images; smoke by Ben
Bryant/Shutterstock.com; cityscape by Frauke Schumann/Plainpicture
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Carroll, Jonathan, 1949–
Bathing the Lion / Jonathan Carroll.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-250-04826-4 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-4891-7 (e-book)
1. Dreams—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3553.A7646B57 1991
813'.54—dc23
2014021408
e-ISBN 9781466848917
First published in Poland by Rebis
First U.S. Edition: October 2014