Generation Loss

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are either fictitious or used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2007 by Elizabeth Hand. All rights reserved.

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Note: An excerpt from this book appeared in 2005 in Gargoyle 50, edited by Lucinda Ebersole and Richard Peabody.

Camera Lucida: Reflections On Photography by Roland Barthes, translation by Richard Howard, translation copyright 1981 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.

“sister morphine” from Babel by Patti Smith, copyright © 1978 by Patti Smith. Used by permission of G.P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hand, Elizabeth.

Generation loss : a novel / Elizabeth Hand.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-1-931520-21-8 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 1-931520-21-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Women photographers—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3558.A4619G46 2007

813’.54—dc22

2006102024

Cover art © 2007 by Jacob McMurray.