People Who Knock on the Door (35 page)

To the courage of the Palestinian people and their leaders in
the struggle to regain a part of their homeland.

This book has nothing to do with their problem.

Copyright © 1983 by Patricia Highsmith

First published as a Norton paperback 2001

Originally published in 1983 by William Heinemann, Ltd., London, England

First published in the United States in 1985 by Penzler Books

All rights reserved

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write to Permissions, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110

The text of this book is composed in Bembo

Composition and design by Amanda Morrison

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Highsmith, Patricia, 1921–

      People who knock on the door / by Patricia Highsmith

             p. cm.

ISBN 0-393-32243-2 (pbk.)

     I. Title

PS3558.I366 P4 2001

813’.54—dc21                                      2001052212

eISBN: 978-0-393-34470-7

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