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Suicide Notes
Copyright © 2008 by Michael Thomas Ford
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ford, Michael Thomas.
Suicide notes / Michael Thomas Ford. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Brimming with sarcasm, fifteen-year-old Jeff describes his stay in a psychiatric ward after attempting to commit suicide.
ISBN 978-0-06-073757-3
[1. Suicide—Fiction. 2. Psychiatric hospitals—Fiction. 3. Homosexuality—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.F7532119Su 2008
[Fic]—dc22
2008019199
CIP
AC
First paperback edition, 2010
EPub Edition © 2010 ISBN: 9780062043078
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