About the Author
JULIA CLAIBORNE JOHNSON is the author of the bestselling Be Frank with Me, a finalist for the American Booksellers Association Best Debut Novel Award. She grew up on a farm in Tennessee before moving to New York City, where she worked at Mademoiselle and Glamour magazines. She now lives in Los Angeles with her comedy-writer husband and their two children.
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
better luck next time. Copyright © 2021 by Julia Claiborne Johnson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Johnson, Julia Claiborne, author.
Title: Better luck next time : a novel / Julia Claiborne Johnson.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020019558 (print) | LCCN 2020019559 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062916365 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780062916389 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780062916396 (ebook)
Classification: LCC PS3610.O3573 B48 2021 (print) | LCC PS3610.O3573 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020019558
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020019559
Digital Edition JANUARY 2021 ISBN: 978-0-06-291639-6
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-291636-5
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