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Copyright © 2015 by Amanda Filipacchi

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Filipacchi, Amanda.

The unfortunate importance of beauty : a novel /

Amanda Filipacchi. — First edition.

pages ; cm

ISBN 978-0-393-24387-1 (hardcover)

1. Female friendship—Fiction. 2. Chick lit. I. Title.

PS3556.I428U54 2015

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2014037010

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