Copyright © 1979, 2002 by The Estate of Alice Adams Linenthal
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Ltd., Toronto. Originally published in hardcover as part of Beautiful Girl in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 1979.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Roses, Rhododendron originally appeared in The New Yorker.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
The Cataloging-in-Publication Data for Beautiful Girl is available from the Library of Congress.
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