Текст книги "The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty"

Автор книги: Amanda Filipacchi

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my brilliant editor, Jill Bialosky, and my extraordinary agent, Melanie Jackson, for their advice, support, and enthusiasm.

For their encouragement, thoughtfulness, and, in some cases, help with special expertise, I am grateful to Sondra Peterson, Daniel Filipacchi, Katherine J. Chen, Rebecca Schultz, Martine Bellen, Allegra Huston, Louise Brockett, Angie Shih, Jennifer Cohen, Shelley Griffin, Kathleen Patrick Bosman, Bruce Champagne, Régis Pagniez, the team at Norton, and, everlastingly, to Richard Hine.

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Copyright © 2015 by Amanda Filipacchi

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Filipacchi, Amanda.

The unfortunate importance of beauty : a novel /

Amanda Filipacchi. – First edition.

pages ; cm

ISBN 978-0-393-24387-1 (hardcover)

1. Female friendship—Fiction. 2. Chick lit. I. Title.

PS3556.I428U54 2015

813'.54—dc23

2014037010

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