I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you to Peter Steinberg and Coates Bateman. I am also happily indebted to Nan Talese, Luke Epplin, and everyone at Doubleday, to Joe Regal and the redoubtable Bess Reed. To Melanie for her insightful reading and suggestions and for years of encouragement. To all my children.
For their advice and inspiration, Sam Hazo, David Low, Cliff Becker, Amy Stolls, Ellen Bryson, Gigi Bradford, Allison Bawden, Laura Becker, and Sharon Kangas. And for the swift kick at Whale Rock, thank you to Jane Alexander and Ed Sherin.
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection inspired the journal article on the anthropological roots of the changeling myth.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Keith Donohue lives in Maryland, near Washington, D.C. For many years, he was a speechwriter at the National Endowment for the Arts, and now works at another federal agency. The Stolen Child is his first novel.
FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, JANUARY 2007
Copyright © 2006 by Keith Donohue
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2006.
Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Excerpt from “Night” from The Blue Estuaries by Louise Bogan, © 1968.
Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Donohue, Keith.
The stolen child / Keith Donohue.— 1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Doubles—Fiction. 2. Pianists—Fiction. 3. Changelings—Fiction. 4. Kidnapping victims—Fiction. 5. Identity (Psychology)—Fiction. 6. Germany—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3604.O5654S76 2006
813'.6—dc22 2005053828
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