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First published 2008 by The Text Publishing Company
This edition 2009

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Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Bail, Murray, 1941–
The pages / author, Murray Bail.
Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2009.
ISBN 9781921520457 (pbk.)
A823.4