Delirium - Lauren Oliver [153]
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BEFORE I FALL
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
A GEOGRAPHICAL NOTE ABOUT THE DESCRIPTION OF PORTLAND, MAINE:
Although many of the larger geographical areas indicated in this book do, in fact, exist (such as Tukey’s Bridge, the Cove, Munjoy Hill, and the neighborhood of Deering Highlands), as I had the pleasure to discover while staying there to research this book, most (if not all) of the streets, landmarks, beaches, and universities are of my own invention. To the residents of Portland: Please excuse the fictional liberties I have taken with your wonderful city, and I’ll see you soon.
The lines from “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in”. Copyright 1952, © 1980, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust, from Complete Poems: 1904–1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
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Delirium
Copyright © 2011 by Laura Schechter
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Oliver, Lauren.
Delirium/Lauren Oliver.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
ISBN 978-0-06-172682-8
[1. Love—Fiction. 2. Government, Resistance to—Fiction. 3. Family life—Maine—Fiction. 4. Orphans—Fiction. 5. Maine—Fiction. 6. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.O475Del 2011
[Fic]—dc22
2010017839
CIP
AC
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First Edition
EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780062069542
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