ALSO BY RON HANSEN
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Mariette in Ecstasy
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Desperadoes
For Children
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Editor
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(with Jim Shepard)
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PRAISE
“A rich and disturbing experience. . . . Atticus . . . offers a world simultaneously mystical and mundane.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Ron Hansen has proven himself a master of the enigmatic, particularly that crack in the world between belief and reality.”
—Boston Globe
“Atticus’s travails never become maudlin, and the twist, when it comes, is faultlessly clever.”
—The New Yorker
“Compelling. . . . Thoughtful. . . . The theme of departure and attempted return is played out with poetic sensitivity by both son and father throughout the novel.”
“Masterful versatility … increasingly gripping plot.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Atticus is a wrenching journey through irreparable loss…. With terse dialogue and canny understatement, Hansen impresses an indelible image of father and son, and dramatizes the issues that caused the breach between them…. All this is accomplished in prose neither labored nor rushed.”
—The Nation
“A finely crafted, character-driven piece of literature.”
—Orlando Sentinel
“Hansen has created a superb novel…. He has the rare ability to tell a story that leaves readers asking questions long after they have put down the book.”
—Houston Chronicle
COPYRIGHT
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint selections in this book:
Excerpts from Pre-Columbian Literatures of Mexico by Miguel León-Portilla. Translated from the Spanish by Grace Lobanov and Miguel León-Portilla. Copyright © 1969 by the University of Oklahoma Press.
“Eye-Opener” from The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry by Malcolm Lowry. Copyright © 1992 by the Estate of Malcolm Lowry. Reprinted by permission of Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.
“Here Comes the Sun.” Words and Music by George Harrison. Copyright © 1969 Harrisongs Ltd. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved.
“Tú, Sólo Tú” by Felipe Valdes Leal. Copyright © 1949 by Promotora Hispano Americana de Musica. Copyright Renewed. Administered by Peer International Corporation. International Copyright Secured.
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1996 by HarperCollins Publishers.
ATTICUS. Copyright © 1996 by Ron Hansen. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
First HarperPerennial edition published in 1997.
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The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Hansen, Ron, 1947–
p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-018217-2
EPub Edition November 2014 ISBN 9780061978142
1. Fathers and sons—Colorado—Fiction. 2. Adult children—Death—Fiction. 3. Ranchers—Colorado—Fiction. 4. Murder—Mexico—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3558.A5133A93 1996
813'.54—dc20
95-38450
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ISBN 0-06-092786-0 (pbk.)
13 14 15 /RRD 30 29 28 27
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