The Lover's Dictionary

223 Pages·2012·0.96 MB·English

David Levithan is the author of many
acclaimed novels, includingBoy Meets Boy,
the
New York TimesbestsellingWill Grayson,
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Will Grayson
(with John Green), andNick & Norah’s In-
finite Playlist
(with Rachel Cohn), which was adapted into
a popular
movie. He is also an editorial director at
Scholastic in
New York. David lives in New Jersey.
THE
LOVER'S
DICTIONARY
DAVID LEVITHAN
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Originally published in 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
New York
This edition published by The Text Publishing Company 2011
Cover design by W. H. Chong
Text design by Jonathan D. Lippincott
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Author: Levithan, David.
Title: The lover’s dictionary / David Levithan.
ISBN: 9781921656910 (pbk.)
Dewey Number: 813.6
For my parents, with gratitude and wonder

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