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At Large and At Small - Confessions of a Literary Hedonist by Anne Fadiman
$29.95 AUD
Category: Essays
In "At Large and At Small", Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favourite genres, the familiar essay - a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With her wonderful combination of wit and erudition, Fadiman dra ...Show more
Ex Libris - Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
The author is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill", and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. This title recounts her lifelong obsession with books. ...Show more
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
$26.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, tradit ...Show more
The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir by Anne Fadiman
$45.00 AUD
Category: General
A memoir exploring Fadiman's relationship with her father, the literary critic, editor, and radio host Clifton Fadiman.
The Wine Lover's Daughter - A Memoir by Anne Fadiman
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In The Wine Lover's Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines--with all her characteristic wit and feeling--her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine.An appreciation of wine--along with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive ...Show more
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