A VINTAGE BOOKS ORIGINAL, APRIL 2011
Copyright © 2011 by Madison Smartt Bell
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Data
Bell, Madison Smartt.
The color of night : a novel / by Madison Smartt Bell.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-74241-4
1. Card dealers—Fiction. 2. Las Vegas
(Nev.)—Fiction. 3. Marginality,
Social—Fiction. 4. Social
isolation—Fiction. 5. Psychological
fiction.
I. Title.
PS3552.E517C65 2011
813’.54—dc21
2010019104
Cover photograph: Douglas Kirkland/Corbis
Cover design by Kimberly Glyder
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