Authors: Janette Turner Hospital

The Tiger in the Tiger Pit (28 page)

First published 1983

Published 1990 by University of Queensland Press
Box 6042, St Lucia, Queensland 4067 Australia
Reprinted 1992, 1998.
This edition 2003

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This is a work of fiction. All characters and events are fictitious. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

The epigram “Lines for an Old Man” and the lines from “Gerontion” are reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd from
Collected Poems 1909-1962
, by T. S. Eliot.

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