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  1. Cover
  2. About the book
  3. Contents
  4. Title Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. ONE
  8. TWO
  9. THREE
  10. FOUR
  11. FIVE
  12. SIX
  13. SEVEN
  14. EIGHT
  15. NINE
  16. TEN
  17. ELEVEN
  18. TWELVE
  19. THIRTEEN
  20. FOURTEEN
  21. FIFTEEN
  22. SIXTEEN
  23. SEVENTEEN
  24. EIGHTEEN
  25. NINETEEN
  26. TWENTY
  27. TWENTY-ONE
  28. EPILOGUE
  29. AUTHOR’S NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  30. Copyright
  31. More at Random House Australia

There is no Ogilvie College nor is there a town called Ogilvie in Georgia. I have put my imaginary Ogilvie southeast of Savannah on a railway line that is mostly fictional. The Seaboard Coast Line once existed, but in 1986 it was subsumed into the less poetically named CSX Transportation, and diverted.

All reference works quoted here also are fictional, and of my creation alone, but Farscape, Rivera’s and Angie’s favorite sci-fi television program, is indeed real.

Lots of people lent a hand with this, many of them born-and-bred southerners; others who came to the South by choice or chance. These include Bruce Beasley, Penny Chambers, Thor Hansen, and Suzanne Paola. I’m especially thankful for the thoughtful reading of early and not-so-early drafts by Pokey Bolton, Cheryll Greenwood Kinsley, and Ruth Czirr. Ruth was tremendously helpful in sorting through some of the complexities of southern small-town customs and social structures. Joy Johannessen provided much-needed and very welcome editorial commentary and a new perspective, which were immensely helpful. Joe Vassallo answered a lot of questions about documentary film production with great clarity and patience. As always, mistakes are not to be laid at anybody’s doorstep but my own.

Thanks especially to Jill Grinberg, for thoughtful feedback and encouragement when it was most needed, to Leona Nevler, who fell for Ogilvie just as hard as I did, and to Bill and Elisabeth, whose faith in me seems to have no bounds.

Copyright

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted by any person or entity, including internet search engines or retailers, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including printing, photocopying (except under the statutory exceptions provisions of the Australian Copyright Act 1968), recording, scanning or by any information storage and retrieval system without the prior written permission of Random House Australia. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly.

Version 1.0
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9781742747903

Copyright © Rosina Lippi 2006

The moral right of the author has been asserted.

First published in the United States and Canada by the Penguin Group in 2006
First published in Australia and New Zealand by Bantam in 2006
This edition published in 2008

Cataloguing-in-Publication entry available
through the National Library of Australia

Donati, Sara, 1956–.
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ISBN 978 1 86325 492 2.
1 v.

813.54

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Cover design by Darian Causby/Highway 51 Design Works
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