The Chelsea Girls

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Copyright © 2019 by Fiona Davis

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Names: Davis, Fiona, 1966– author.

Title: The Chelsea girls : a novel / Fiona Davis.

Description: First edition. | New York : Dutton, [2019]

Identifiers: LCCN 2019002424 (print) | LCCN 2019009375 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524744595 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524744588 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: Blacklisting of entertainers—Fiction. | Chelsea Hotel—Fiction. | United States—Politics and government—1945–1989—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Historical. | FICTION Mystery & Detective General. | FICTION Literary. | GSAFD: Historical fiction Classification: LCC PS3604.A95695 (ebook) | LCC PS3604.A95695 C48 2019 (print) | DDC 813.6—dc23

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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