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Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published in the U.S.A. 1968 Published in Great Britain by André Deutsch 1968 Published in Penguin Books for sale outside the United Kingdom 1969 Reprinted 1969 Published in Penguin Books for sale within the United Kingdom 1970 Copyright © John Updike, 1968

Made and printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks Set in Monotype Plantin

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