A Ballantine Book
Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Copyright © 1992 by Anne O’Brien Rice
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Macmillan Publishing Company for permission to reprint “The Dolls” and “Sailing to Byzantium” by W. B. Yeats from The Poems of W. B. Yeats: A New Edition, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Copyright 1928 by Macmillan Publishing Company, copyright renewed 1956 by Georgie Yeats (New York: Macmillan, 1983).
A portion of this work was originally published in Playboy magazine.
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-93892
eISBN: 978-0-307-57591-3
This edition published by arrangement with Alfred A Knopf, Inc.
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