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The Norton Book of Women’s Lives
Langbeschreibung
"This magnificent, handsome, handful of an anthology . . ."* includes sixty-one substantial selections from the twentieth-century literature of women's lives: autobiographies, journals, and memoirs. "As varied in humanity as in geography,"** the women whose life stories are collected here include the famous-Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Frank, Virginia Woolf-and the surprising-Emma Mashinini, a black South African labor organizer; Onnie Lee Logan, an Alabama "granny" midwife; Sara Suleri, an expatriate in America who reflects hilariously on the language of food in her native Pakistan."Destined to become a classic,"+ this treasury of women's lives, brimming with intelligence, passion, wit, and determination, is a celebration of life itself.*Hungry Mind Review**Washington Post Book World+Library Journal
Phyllis Rose is the author of Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages and other noted works of biography and criticism. She is professor of English at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
ISBN-13:
9780393312904
Veröffentl:
1995
Erscheinungsdatum:
17.04.1995
Seiten:
832
Autor:
Phyllis Rose
Gewicht:
916 g
Format:
228x142x36 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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