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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

Poem on p.ix reproduced by kind permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, © 1955 by Donald Hall. First appeared in Exiles and Marriages, published by Viking Press, New York.

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