Copyright © 2002 by Sabina Murray
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Originally published by in the United States in 2002 by Mariner Books,
a division of Houghton Mifflin Company
Published simultaneously in Canada
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Murray, Sabina.
The caprices / Sabina Murray.
p. cm.
eBook ISBN-13: 978-1-5558-4820-0
1. World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Pacific Area—Fiction.
2. Pacific Area—Fiction. 3. War stories, American. I. Title.
PS3563.U787 C36 2001
813′.54—dc21 2001024527
Some of the stories in this collection have appeared elsewhere in slightly different form: “Intramuros” in Ploughshares, “The Caprices” in New England Review, “Walkabout” in Ontario Review, “Folly” in Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World, edited by Jessica Hagedom, and “Position” in The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 7th Edition.
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