Copyright © 1989 by Roger Lewinter
Translation copyright © 2016 by Rachel Careau
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Story of Love in Solitude was originally published in French as Histoire d’amour dans la solitude in 1989 by Éditions Gérard Lebovici, Paris.
Published by arrangement with the author.
The translator gratefully acknowledges the editors of the following magazines, in which two of these stories first appeared, in a slightly different form: Avec (“Story of Love in Solitude”) and Two Lines (“Passion”).
First published as New Directions Paperbook 1356 in 2016
Manufactured in the United States of America
Design by Erik Rieselbach
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lewinter, Roger author. | Careau, Rachel, translator.
Title: Story of love in solitude / by Roger Lewinter ; translated by Rachel Careau.
Other titles: Histoire d’amour dans la solitude. English
Identifiers: LCCN 2016022382 (print) | LCCN 2016028608 (ebook) | ISBN 9780811225199 (alk. paper) | ISBN 9780811226110 ()
Classification: LCC PQ2672.E963 H5813 2016 (print) | LCC PQ2672.E963 (ebook) | DDC 843/.914—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016022382
eISBN: 9780811226110
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