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ISBN 0-618-04213-x First published in Great Britain in 2000 by Chatto & Windus Printed in the United States of America QUM 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To my students at M.I.T.
who have been my teachers Acknowledgements Many thanks to the Civitella Ranieri Foundation for providing me with a summer in Umbria where I revised these stories.
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