Words and worlds : from autobiography to zippers

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"In this candid and bluntly humorous collection of essays on a wide range of topics, Lurie begins with a portrait of her life at Radcliffe during World War II when the smartest women in the country were treated like second-class citizens, the most scholarly among them expected to work in factories to support the war effort. She moves on to her unheralded, clumsy attempts and near failure to be a writer and, finally having reached a level of recog...

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Literature, Modern History and criticism

Lurie, Alison

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Autobiographies

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ISBN:

9781883285784
188328578X

Edition:

First edition

Description:

230 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Essays. Selections

Notes:

Autobiographical essays

Contents:

Personal history. Nobody asked you to write a novel ; Their Harvard
Words and worlds. What happened in Hamlet ; The language of deconstruction ; My name or yours? ; Witches old and new
People. Archie's gifts ; Barbara Epstein ; Edward Gorey ; James Merrill
Children's books. The good bad boy : Pinocchio ; The royal family of elephants ; Saying no to Narnia ; Harry Potter revisited ; Bad husbands ; Rapunzel : the girl in the tower
Clothes. Breaking the laws of fashion ; Aprons ; The mystery of knitting ; Zippers ; Life after fashion

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2775294

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