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First published by Atlantic Monthy Press 1962 First published in Britain by Secker & Warburg, 1962 Published in Penguin Books, 1965
Copyright © Katherine Anne Porter, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1962
Earlier versions of some scenes from this novel have been published in Accent, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Mademoiselle, Parisian Review, Sewanee Review, and Texas Quarterly
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