Original text © Éditions Gallimard
English translation © Euan Cameron 2011
Afterword © Michel Déon 2011
Tender Shoots first published in French as
Tendres Stocks in 1921.
This edition first published in 2011 by
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Frontispiece Paul Morand 1935
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