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First published 1974
Reprinted 1974
© 1966, 1968, 1974 by Patrick White
Jonathan Cape Ltd, 30 Bedford Square, London WC1
ISBN 9780224009928
My thanks to the following publications in which stories have appeared: Australian Letters and Macmillan’s Winter’s Tales for ‘A Woman’s Hand’; Angus and Robertson’s Coast to Coast for ‘The Full Belly’; and Southerly Magazine, University of Sydney, for ‘Five-Twenty’.
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