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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Adams, Lorraine.
   The room and the chair: a novel / by Lorraine Adams.–1st ed.
    p. cm.
   eISBN: 978-0-307-59286-6
   1. War on Terrorism, 2001–Fiction.  2. War on Terrorism, 2001–Press Coverage–Fiction.  3. War on Terrorism, 2001–Social aspects–Fiction.  4. Political fiction. I. Title.
   PS3601.D38R66 2010
   813′.6–dc22      2009024009

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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