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Copyright © 2016 by Brian Sweany
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Set in Dante
Book design by starling
Illustration by Alexandra Infante
ePub ISBN: 978-1-942600-62-6
Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data
Names: Sweany, Brian, author.
Title: Buy the ticket , take the ride : a novel / Brian Sweany.
Description: First Trade Paperback Original Edition | A Barnacle Book | Los Angeles [California] , New York [New York] : Rare Bird Books, 2016.
Identifiers: ISBN 978-1-942600-38-1
Subjects: LCSH Family—Fiction. | Indianapolis (Ind.)—Fiction. | Bildungsroman. | Rock music—Fiction. | Relationships—Fiction. | Publishing—Fiction. | Biographical fiction. | Humorous fiction. | Satire. | BISAC FICTION/General.
Classification: LCC PS3619.W42 B49 2016| DDC 813.6—dc23
No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride…and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well…maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.
—Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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