VIKING
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First published 2017
Copyright © 2017 by Joanne Proulx
Excerpt from OPEN SECRETS: STORIES by Alice Munro, copyright © 1994 by Alice Munro. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Penguin Random House LLC for permission.
Excerpt from THE DIARY OF ANAÏS NIN Volume Three: 1939–1944. Copyright © 1969 by Anaïs Nin and renewed 1997 by Rupert Pole and Gunther Stuhlmann. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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Publisher’s note: This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION
Proulx, Joanne, author
We all love the beautiful girls / Joanne Proulx.
ISBN 9780735232884 (paperback)
ISBN 9780735232891 (electronic)
I. Title.
PS8631.R6815W4 2017 C813′.6 C2016-907174-X
Cover and interior design: Jennifer Griffiths
Cover image: Ian Ross Pettigrew/Getty Images
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