One United
Returning the River
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Also by Daniel Woodrell
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Copyright © 2011 by Daniel Woodrell
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First eBook Edition: October 2011
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the publishers of earlier versions of these stories: Esquire, “Twin Forks” and “Night Stand”; New Letters, “Black Step” and “The Horse in Our History”; Missouri Review, “Woe to Live On”; Murdaland (an anthology), “The Echo of Neighborly Bones”; A Hell of a Woman ( an anthology), “Uncle”; Men from Boys (an anthology),”Two Things”; and Bloodlines (an anthology), “The Horse in Our History.” Parts of “Woe to Live On” appeared in the novel Woe to Live On.
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
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ISBN: 978-0-316-19339-9