Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Portions of this book have appeared in the Portable Lower East Side.
Previously published by Akashic Books
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ISBN: 0-671-02763-8
eISBN-13: 978-1-439-18455-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-671-02763-6
First MTV Books/Pocket Books trade paperback printing May 1999
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