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First published in the USA by Ballantine Books, New York 2016
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Source ISBN: 9780007425532
Ebook Edition © July 2017 ISBN: 9780007425525
Version: 2017-03-23
For Sarah and Vasant Gideon
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
—SØREN KIERKEGAARD
Contents
Joseph: Valley of the Moon, California. 1906
Lux: San Francisco, California. 1975
Joseph: Valley of the Moon. 1906
Joseph: Valley of the Moon. 1906
Joseph: Valley of the Moon. 1907
Joseph: Valley of the Moon. 1907–8
Joseph: Valley of the Moon. 1908
Joseph: Valley of the Moon. 1909
Joseph: Valley of the Moon. 1909