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First published in the U.S.A. 1954
Published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz 1955
Published in Penguin Books 1964
Copyright © Peter de Vries, 1954
Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox and Wyman Ltd, London, Reading, and Fakenham
Set in Monotype Joanna
Parts of chapters 6, 11, 13, 15, and 17 of this novel have appeared in somewhat different form in the New Yorker.
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