Acknowledgements
I am grateful to Angela Rohan for her careful work on the manuscript; to my agent Peter Straus; to my editors Mary Mount at Viking/Penguin in London, Nan Graham at Scribner in New York and Ellen Seligman at McClelland & Stewart in Toronto; also, to Catriona Crowe, Deborah Triesman, Brendan Barrington, Enrique Juncosa, Javier Montes, Jonas Storve, Vija Celmins, Dave Eggers, Paul Whitlatch, Jennifer Hewson, Aidan Dunne, Robert Sullivan, Marie Donnelly, Edward Mulhall, Cormac Kinsella, Pankaj Mishra.