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afterword

noun as in back matter

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In his afterword, Cornwell says his father began writing the book around 2013 yet the manuscript was “never signed off.”

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Left behind when le Carré died, the book was shepherded to publication by his son Nick Cornwell, who says in an afterword that the process was more like retouching a painting than completing a novel.

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It transformed the culture with a “sudden flood of new ideas, combined with the relative lack of statutory oversight on a whole generation of youth,” as translator Ari Larissa Heinrich explains in the afterword.

Music journalist Joel Selwin annotates, with a preface by Donovan, a foreword by Jorma Kaukonen, and an afterword by John Poppy.

And Tom Cruise pens the afterword of your book, about your aborted project At the Mountains of Madness.

“Afterword” from Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser.

This piece was adapted from a new Afterword on forgiveness, to be published in the expanded paperback edition March 3.

Gay Talese's brilliant history of morality in America was re-issued this year with a new afterword by the author.

This shall be a brief afterword, for I have little else to say.

I had not thought to add anything to them by way of an afterword.

"Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it," is the prayer's solemn afterword; but the prayer we ask is no trifle.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to afterword, such as: addendum, appendix, end matter, epilogue, index, and supplement.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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