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Copyright © 1969, 1971, 1972, 1985, 2019 by Alix Kates Shulman
Introduction copyright © 2019 by Alix Kates Shulman
Originally published in 1972 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Acknowledgement is extended to the following for permission to reprint copyrighted material:
Chappel & Co., Inc.: Lines from Where or When by Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers. Copyright 1937 by Chappel & Co. Inc. Copyright renewed.
Famous Music Publishing Companies: Lines from Lotus Blossom (Marahuana). Copyright 1934 by Famous Music Corporation. Copyright renewed 1961 by Famous Music Corporation.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.: Excerpts from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot from Collected Poems 1909–1962.
Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.: Excerpts from Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock, M.D. Copyright 1945, 1946, by Benjamin Spock, M.D. Copyright © 1957, © 1968 by Benjamin Spock, M.D.
Portions of this novel have appeared in Aphra, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 1970, and Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter 1971; and in Works in Progress, Vol. 6, April 1972.
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, businesses, companies, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
The right of Alix Kates Shulman to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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