ALSO BY PAUL MURRAY
An Evening of Long Goodbyes
Skippy Dies
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Contents
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Idea for a Novel
1: A Boat Ride
2: In the Abyss
3: Persona Ficta
4: King Tide
Acknowledgements
A Note About the Author
Also by Paul Murray
Copyright
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Copyright © 2015 by Paul Murray
All rights reserved
Originally published in 2015 by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2015
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Murray, Paul, 1975–
The mark and the void / Paul Murray. — First American edition.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-86547-755-1 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-374-71298-3 (e-book)
PR6113.U78 M37 2015
823'.92—dc23
2015015136
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, organizations, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, places, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.