FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION
Copyright © 1947, 1950 © 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 by John Hersey
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 Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 1953, and simultaneously In Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Ebook ISBN 9780593080795
The short stories in this collection were originally published in the following publications: “God’s Typhoon,” The Atlantic, January, 1988; “Peggety’s Parcel of Shortcomings,” The Atlantic, June, 1950; “Fling,” Grand Street, Summer, 1987; “The Blouse,” Special Report: Fiction, May–July, 1989; “The Announcement,” The Atlantic, October, 1989; “Why Were You Sent Out Here?” The Atlantic, February, 1947; “Requiescat,” Paris Review, No. 107, Summer, 1988; “The Captain,” The Yacht, November/December, 1988; “Mr. Quintillian,” The Yale Review, Fall, 1987; “The Terrorist,” Esquire, August, 1987; “Affinities,” Shenandoah, Vol. XXXVII-2, 1987.
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