Ararat

Copyright

Copyright © 2017 Christopher Golden

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First published in the United States in 2017 by St. Martin’s Press

This Ebook edition was first published by Headline Publishing Group in 2017

Excerpt from It’s a Wonderful Life © Liberty Films, 1946

Excerpt from ‘All my Favorite People’ © Over the Rhine, 2011

All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Cataloguing in Publication Data is available from the British Library

eISBN: 978 1 4722 3431 5

Cover design by Richard Augustus

Cover images © Tim Daniels/

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