A Ballantine Book
Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group
Copyright © 1996 by James E. Parker Jr.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in a slightly different form by John Culler & Sons in 1996.
Ballantine and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 00-190008
eISBN: 978-0-307-48697-4
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