An American Tune: A Novel

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An American Tune break away books Indiana University Press Bloomington & Indianapolis Barbara Shoup A Novel An American Tune This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, Indiana 47404-3797 USA iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931© 2012 by Barbara Shoup All rights reserved “An American Tune “ by Paul Simon. Copyright © 1973 Paul Simon. Used by permission of the Publisher: Paul Simon Music. “Positively Fourth Street” by Bob Dylan. Copyright©1965 Warner Bros., Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. Excerpt from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” from Collected Poems, 1909–1962 by T. S. Eliot. Copyright 1936 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Copyright © renewed 1964 by T.S. Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences–Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shoup, Barbara. An American tune : a novel / Barbara Shoup. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-253-00742-1 (pb : alk. paper)–ISBN 978-0-253-00754-4 (eb) 1. Middle-aged women–Fiction 2. Family secrets–Fiction I. Title. PS3569.H618A83 2012 813’.54–dc23 2012027221 1 2 3 4 5 17 16 15 14 13 12 For Steve September 12, 1965 This page intentionally left blank . . . we come on the ship they call Mayflower We come on the ship that sailed the moon We come in the age’s most uncertain hour And sing an American tune. Paul Simon This page intentionally left blank ...