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CD/Spoken Word:
9781441779830 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2011), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: With color, irony and sensitivity, Pulitzer prize-winner Annie Dillard illuminates the dedication absurdity, and daring that is the writer's life.
Hardcover:
9780873384803 | Kent State Univ Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $39.00
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9781412842181 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, March 14, 2011), cover price $42.95 | About this edition: H.
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9780807859957 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, January 27, 2011, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: All autobiographers are unreliable narrators.
Hardcover:
9780878056149 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, March 1, 1993, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: This study is an intertextual examination of selected self-writings by Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter, and Zora Neale Hurston.
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9781604738766 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, July 12, 2010, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This study is an intertextual examination of selected self-writings by Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter, and Zora Neale Hurston.
9780878058020 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Mississippi, April 1, 1995), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: This study is an intertextual examination of selected self-writings by Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter, and Zora Neale Hurston.
9780345387400, titled "Teaching Children Responsibility" | Fawcett Books, July 1, 1993, cover price $11.00 | also contains Teaching Children Responsibility
Hardcover:
9780783887425 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, October 1, 1999), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The author chronicles his and his wife's first five years in Tuscany
9780920256381 | Albatross, November 1, 1998, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The author chronicles his and his wife's first five years in Tuscany, in a memoir by turns buoyant, reflective, and humorous
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9780920256626 | Albatross, April 30, 2010, cover price $14.95
9780385334419 | Delta, November 1, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The author chronicles his and his wife's first five years in Tuscany, in a memoir by turns buoyant, reflective, and humorous
Hardcover:
9780374148805 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 23, 2009, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: NONFICTION FROM "ONE OF THE STRONGEST AND MOST ARRESTING PROSE TALENTS OF HIS GENERATION" (LARRY MCMURTRY) Leonard Michaels was a writer of unfailing emotional honesty.
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9780374532260 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 22, 2010, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Leonard Michaels was a writer of unfailing emotional honesty.
Miscellaneous:
9781429933247 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 15, 2010), cover price $12.99
A literary critic analyzes modern American literature and its relation to changing society, from realism and social reform to naturalism and social consciousness
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9780156687515, titled "On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature" | Reissue edition (Harcourt, June 1, 1983), cover price $9.95 | also contains On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature | About this edition: A literary critic analyzes modern American literature and its relation to changing society, from realism and social reform to naturalism and social consciousness
Product Description: How can travel turn the lonesome broodings of confusions to the small findings of solitude? In the western landscape, how do we leave word for each other, we travelers and citizens of places known by few? What are the gifts of the landscape itself- the desert's dazzle, fragrance, storm, and stars? How might these heal sorrow? In this book, a crisis of marriage and identity sends a traveler out along the Lochsa Road from Oregon , to seek the healing solitudes of the moutains and deserts of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming...read more
Hardcover:
9789176529249 | Confluence Pr, January 1, 2010, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: How can travel turn the lonesome broodings of confusions to the small findings of solitude?
Paperback:
9789176529324 | Confluence Pr, January 1, 2010, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: How can travel turn the lonesome broodings of confusions to the small findings of solitude?
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9781582435565 | Counterpoint, December 10, 2009, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Any discussion of the great masters of American English must include the writings of Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher.
Hardcover:
9780813122373 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, September 13, 2002, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Coal miners evoke admiration and sympathy from the public, and writersâsome seeking a muse, others a causeâtraditionally champion them.
Paperback:
9780813193472 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, November 1, 2009, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Coal miners evoke admiration and sympathy from the public, and writersâsome seeking a muse, others a causeâtraditionally champion them.
Contains a collection of sayings and expressions the novelist gathered over a forty-year period from his Appalachian neighbors, plus an interview
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9780813117416 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, July 9, 1991, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Contains a collection of sayings and expressions the novelist gathered over a forty-year period from his Appalachian neighbors, plus an interview
Paperback:
9780813193441 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, November 1, 2009, cover price $22.00
Hardcover:
9780374100742 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 9, 2008, cover price $25.00
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9780312428501 | Picador USA, October 27, 2009, cover price $17.00
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9780060541347 | Perennial, December 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Collected for the first time in a single volume, an anthology of the prose work by the distinguished poet features a variety of essays, articles, meditations, and reminiscences that includes Racism 101, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles, and selections from the autobiographical Gemini.
Paperback:
9780292722309 | Univ of Texas Pr, August 1, 2009, cover price $28.95
Hardcover:
9780792718093 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, January 1, 1994), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: This specially-priced, limited-time package contains the cassette An Interesting Life (a $10.
9780201406573, titled "Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living" | Har/cas edition (Perseus Books, October 1, 1993), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This specially-priced, limited-time package contains the cassette An Interesting Life (a $10.
9780201632958 | Da Capo Pr, April 20, 1993, cover price $17.90 | About this edition: Recounting life in her small Southern town, the author describes teaching first-graders to read with the help of the Titanic, her cane-wielding mother in a juke joint, and other tales
Paperback:
9780306818028 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, March 23, 2009), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Welcome to the unique world of Bailey White.
9780679751601 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 1994), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Recounting life in her small Southern town, the author describes teaching first-graders to read with the help of the 'Titanic,' her cane-wielding mother in a juke joint, and other tales
9780792718086 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, January 1, 1994), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This specially-priced, limited-time package contains the cassette An Interesting Life (a $10.
Hardcover:
9781598530407 | Library of America, March 19, 2009, cover price $40.00
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9780521102742 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 12, 2009), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Early in the twentieth century, journalism and fiction suffered a forced separation as a result of two coinciding trends: a popular tendency to treat literature as an elevated, aesthetic category and the emergence of objective narrative in journalism.
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9780811218207 | Reprint edition (New Directions, February 1, 2009), cover price $17.95
9780811212472 | Reissue edition (New Directions, September 1, 1993), cover price $15.95
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9780307387257 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 2, 2008), cover price $17.95
Hardcover:
9781400063987 | Random House Inc, October 28, 2008, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Norman Mailer said that George Plimpton was the best-loved man in New York.
Hardcover:
9780316005272 | Little Brown & Co, October 31, 2007, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S.
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9780826319784 | Expanded edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, March 30, 2008), cover price $17.95
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9780810123144 | Northwestern Univ Pr, April 30, 2008, cover price $24.95
9780810124691 | Northwestern Univ Pr, January 16, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Journalism in the twentieth century was marked by the rise of literary journalism.
Hardcover:
9781591584872 | Libraries Unltd Inc, November 30, 2007, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Profiles of and reading lists for 100 of today's most popular nonfiction authors have been gathered together in this affordable, single source reference, which covers representatives from all major nonfiction genresâtrue adventure, true crime, travel and environmental narrative, science, history, life stories, and investigative writing.
Hardcover:
9780691133263 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 3, 2008, cover price $77.00
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