The Heights
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
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ABIGAIL HOSFORD
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ABIGAIL HOSFORD
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TEDDY
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ALSO BY PETER HEDGES
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
An Ocean in Iowa
DUTTON
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The heights / Peter Hedges.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-101-40454-6
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PS3558.E3165H45 2010
813’.54—dc22 2009020781
Set in Palatino with Trade Gothic
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The list of those who have descended from the heights is long, and only a few need be mentioned.