The Dog Stars

Copyright

Copyright © 2012 by Peter Heller

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

New Directions Publishing Corp.: Excerpt from “‘When Will I Be Home?’ by Li Shang Yin” from One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth.

Copyright © 1970 by Kenneth Rexroth. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Graywolf Press: Excerpt from “Farms on the Great Plains” from The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems by William Stafford. Copyright © 1959, 1998 by William Stafford and the Estate of William Stafford. Reprinted by permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Heller, Peter, [date]

The dog stars: a novel Peter Heller. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

“This is a Borzoi book.”

eISBN: 978-0-307-96093-1

1. End of the world—Fiction. 2. Survival—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3608.E454D642012

813′.6—dc23 2011050429

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Jacket design by Kelly Blair

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