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

www.uqp.uq.edu.au

© Janette Turner Hospital

This book is copyright. Except for private study, research, criticism or reviews, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission. Enquiries should be made to the publisher.

Typeset by University of Queensland Press

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.

Sponsored by the Queensland Office of Arts and Cultural Development.

Cataloguing in Publication Data

National Library of Australia

Hospital, Janette Turner, 1942– .

The tiger in the tiger pit.

I. Title.

A823.3

ISBN: 9780702256097 (ePub)