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Copyright © 1979, 1983 by David Plante
Introduction copyright © 2017 by Scott Spencer
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Cover art: Grace Hartigan, Grazie Rosetti, 1995; © the Estate of Grace Hartigan; collection of Don and Rosie Shepard, The Woodlands, Texas;
image courtesy of C. Grimaldis Gallery
Cover design: Katy Homans
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Plante, David author. | Spencer, Scott author of introduction. Title:
Difficult women / by David Plante ; introduction by Scott Spencer.
Description: New York : New York Review Books, 2017. | Series: New York Review Books classics
Identifiers: LCCN 2016059708| ISBN 9781681371498 (alk. paper) | ISBN 9781681371504 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Plante, David—Friends and associates. | Women—Great Britain—Biography. | Novelists, American—20th century—Biography. | Rhys, Jean. | Orwell, Sonia. | Greer, Germaine, 1939–
Classification: LCC PS3566.L257 Z463 2017 | DDC 813/.54 [B]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016059708
ISBN 978-1-68137-150-4
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