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First published by Penguin Books 1971
‘The Grass Widows’, ‘A Choice of Butchers’, copyright © William Trevor, 1971; ‘An Excuse for a Party’, ‘Watch It’, ‘Almost an International Incident’, copyright © A. L. Barker, 1971; ‘False, Impossible Shore’, copyright © C. J. Driver, 1971
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