—Los Angeles Times
“A girl on the verge searches for her father in Yannick Murphy’s shockingly funny Here They Come.”
—Vanity Fair
Other Works
IN A BEAR’S EYE
SIGNED, MATA HARI
HERE THEY COME
THE SEA OF TREES
STORIES IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE
For Children
THE COLD WATER WITCH
BABY POLAR
AHWOOOOOOOO!
Credits
Cover design and illustration by Milan Bozic
Copyright
An excerpt from this book originally appeared in McSweeney’s #29.
THE CALL. Copyright © 2011 by Yannick Murphy. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, 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 hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
FIRST EDITION
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Murphy, Yannick.
The call : a novel / Yannick Murphy.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-202314-8 (pbk.)
I. Title.
PS3563.U7635C35 2011
813′.54—dc22
2010051661
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EPub Edition © JUNE 2011 ISBN: 9780062092496
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