ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This novel features some underhanded, nefarious members of the publishing field, but luckily there are none on this list. From the earliest version of the story, Suzanne Gluck and Ann Godoff guided my creative goals with insight and respect. I’d like to thank all the others who helped from William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, especially Eve Attermann, Raffaella De Angelis, Tracy Fisher, Ashley Fox, Samantha Frank, Alicia Gordon, Clio Seraphim, and Elizabeth Sheinkman; and from Penguin Press, especially Matthew Boyd, Emily Graff, Sofia Groopman, Darren Haggar, Sarah Hutson, Juli Kiyan, Kym Surridge, Claire Vaccaro, and Veronica Windholz, as well as Stuart Williams and his colleagues at Harvill Secker. Gabriella Gage helped my research get off the ground. I owe thanks to my usual readers and encouragers for key feedback and moral support: especially Kevin Birmingham, Joseph Gangemi, Benjamin Cavell, Scott Weinger, Marsha Helmstadter, Ian Pearl, Susan Pearl, and Warren Pearl, and, of course, my wife, the ideal partner and my ideal reader, and my children, whose pecking at the keyboard is responsible for all mistakes (and anything avant-garde).