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Copyright © 1964 Bohumil Hrabal
Translation copyright © 1995 by Harcourt Brace & Company
Introduction copyright © 2011 by Adam Thirlwell
All rights reserved.
First published in Czech as Taneční hodiny prostarší a pokročilé
Translation published by special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Cover photograph: Miroslav Tichy, MT Inv. no. 1-43; courtesy Foundation Tichy Ocean
Cover design: Katy Homans
The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:
Hrabal, Bohumil, 1914–1997.
[Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokročilé. English]
Dancing lessons for the advanced in age / by Bohumil Hrabal; introduction by Adam Thirlwell; translated by Michael Henry Heim.
p.cm. — (New York Review Books classics)
ISBN 978-1-59017-377-0 (alk. paper)
1. Reminiscing in old age—Fiction. 2. Shoemakers—Fiction. 3. Conduct of life—Fiction. 4. Czechoslovakia—Fiction. I. Heim, Michael Henry.II. Title.
PG5039.18.R2T313 2011
891.8'635—dc22
2010036715
eISBN 978-1-59017-556-9
v1.0
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Bohumil Hrabal, Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
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