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Mr. X / Peter Straub.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-679-40138-5
I. Title.
PS3569.T6914M57 1999
813'.54Чdc21 98-47688

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
Random House website address: www.atrandom.com

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First Edition

Book design by Helene Berinsky




For My brothers, John and Gordon Straub




I could not weigh myselfЧMyselfЧ
My size felt smallЧto meЧI read your Chapter in the AtlanticЧ
and experienced honor for youЧI was sure you would not reject a
confiding questionЧ
Is thisЧSirЧwhat you asked me to tell you?
EЧ Dickinson

ЧEmily Dickinson,
letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, April 25, 1862





CONTENTS
1 Х How I Came Home, and Why
2 Х How I Learned About River-Bottom
3 Х How I Nearly Was Killed
4 Х How I Found My Shadow at Last, and What It Did
5 Х How I Learned to Eat Time
6 Х How I Spent My Birthday
Author's Note


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