FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, AUGUST 1996

Copyright © 1993 by The Estate of John Hersey

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1993.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:

Hersey, John 1914–1993

Key West tales / by John Hersey.—1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-679-42992-1

1. Key West (Fla.)-Fiction. I. Title.

PS3515.E7715K48 1994

813′.52—dc20

93-11094

CIP

Vintage ISBN 9780679772637

Ebook ISBN 9780593080757

Random House Web address: http://www.randomhouse.com/

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