Lottery (novel)
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| Author | Patricia Wood |
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| Language | English |
Publication date | 2007 |
| Publication place | United States |
Lottery is a 2007 novel by Patricia Wood. Her first published novel, it was shortlisted for the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction.[1]
Wood drew on personal experience: her father won $6 million from the Washington state lottery, and her brother-in-law had Down syndrome.[2] Wood wrote the novel in 3 months, and sold it for a reported six-figure deal.[2]