First published by McClelland & Stewart, 1975
Published in this edition by Tundra Books, 2009
Text copyright © 1975 by Mordecai Richler
Illustrations copyright © 2009 by Dušan Petričić
Published in Canada by Tundra Books
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Published in the United States by Tundra Books of Northern New York, P.O. Box 1030, Plattsburgh, New York 12901
Library of Congress Catalogue Number: 2008911581
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Richler, Mordecai, 1931–2001
Dušan Petričić.
eISBN: 978-1-77049-072-7
I. Petričić, Dušan II. Title.
PS8535.I38J3 2009 JC813′.54 C2008-908039-4
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