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First published in the U.S.A. 1963 Published in Great Britain by André Deutsch 1963 First published in Penguin Books 1966 Copyright © John Updike, 1962, 1963
CHAPTER II of this novel, in a somewhat different form, was first printed in The New Yorker under the title ‘On the Way to School’ CHAPTER VIII, slightly shortened, was first printed in Esquire under the title ‘After the Storm’
The lines by Karl Barth are from his Dogmatics in Outline. S.C.M. Press, London
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