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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Most of the contents of this book originally appeared in the New Yorker, in somewhat different form. A portion of Chapter Three appeared in Commentary under the title “Game a la Mode, 1938.”
Foreword appeared originally in Commentary, March 1965, in slightly different form. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 1958, 1961, 1964, 1994 by Lore Groszmann Segal
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