Authors: Paul Bowles

The Delicate Prey (26 page)

Cover design by
MARY SCHUCK

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following magazines in which some of these stories originally appeared:
Harper's Bazaar, Horizon, Life and Letters, Mademoiselle, Partisan Review, Penguin New Writing, View, Wake, World Review,
and
Zero.

A hardcover edition of this book was reissued in 1972 by Ecco Press.

THE DELICATE PREY
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First Harper Perennial edition published 2006.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.

ISBN-10: 0-06-113734-0 (pbk.)

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-113734-1 (pbk.)

EPub Edition Â© JULY 2011 ISBN: 9780062119346

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