PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF CANADA
Copyright © 2023 Sarah Bernstein
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First published in the United Kingdom by Granta Books in 2023.
Distributed in Canada and the United States of America by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Epigraph on this page by Ingeborg Bachmann from Malina, translated by Philip Boehm, published by Penguin Books, London, in 2019; epigraph on this page by Paula Rego from an exhibition of her work (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2004/jul/17/art.art).
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: Study for obedience : a novel / Sarah Bernstein.
Names: Bernstein, Sarah (Literature teacher), author.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20230168965 | Canadiana (ebook) 2023016904X | ISBN 9781039009066 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781039009073 (EPUB)
Classification: LCC PS8603.E7622 S78 2023 | DDC C813/.6—dc23
Cover image: ‘Tapuit’, 2004, Henk Helmantel
Photo: Art Revisited, Tolbert NL
Cover design by Anna Green
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