East is East

This paperback edition first published 1996

Copyright © 1990 by T.C. Boyle

This electronic edition published in 1990 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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The Way of the Samurai by Yukio Mishima, tranlsated by Kathryn Sparling.

Translation copyright © 1977 by Basic Books, Inc., Publishers.

‘I don’t care if it rains or freezes’ by Don Imus. © Imusic, Inc., 1981.

‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’ by Nicholas Ashford and Valerie Simpson.

Copyright © Jobete Music Co., Inc., 1967

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