Lives of Girls and Women

The Flats Road

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Lives of Girls and Women

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First published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1971 Published in Penguin Canada paperback by Penguin Group (Canada), a division of Pearson Canada Inc., 1990, 1997, 2005

Copyright © Alice Munro, 1971

Published in this edition, 2009

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