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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing, prose. Now, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that focus on his relationship with the written word, and solidify his place as one of the most original thinkers of our time. Gathering pieces written between 2003...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xx, 185 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ann Burack-Weiss, a gerontologist with more than forty years of experience, analyzes and engages with the writings of a dozen well-known authors for insights into old age. Featured are Maya Angelou, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, M.F.K Fisher, Doris Grumbach, Carolyn Heilburn, Doris Lessing, Florida Scott-Maxwell, May Sarton, Anne Roiphe, and Alexis Kate Shulman, among others, all of whom wrote about essential issues in old age including...
19) Situations
Author
Publisher
G. Braziller
Pub. Date
[c1965]
Physical Desc
371 p. 22 cm.
Language
English