PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF CANADA
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Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint from the following: “Leda and the Swan,” “The Second Coming” and “A Prayer for My Daughter” by W.B. Yeats, from The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats (Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, 2 Sub edition October 1, 1997).
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Johnston, Wayne
The son of a certain woman / Wayne Johnston.
eISBN: 978-0-345-80791-5
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PS8569.O3918s66 2013 C813′.54 C2013-901560-4
Cover design by Terri Nimmo
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