FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, SEPTEMBER 1997
Copyright © 1996 by Joan Didion
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1996.
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Liveright Publishing Corporation: Excerpts from “Voyages II” from Complete Poems of Hart Crane, edited by Marc Simon, copyright © 1933, 1958, 1966 by Liveright Publishing Corporation, copyright © 1986 by Marc Simon. Reprinted by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
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Music: Excerpt from “Bonanza,” words and music by Ray Evans
and Jay Livingston, copyright ©1959 by St. Angelo Music and Jay
Livingston Music, copyright renewed.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Alfred A.
Knopf, Inc. edition as follows:
Didion, Joan.
The last thing he wanted / by Joan Didion.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-78733-0
I. Title.
PS3554.I33L37 1996
813′.54—dc20 96-17084
Author photograph © Quintana Roo Dunne
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