The Norton Book of Women's Lives
of Phyllis Rose (Editor), Maya Angelou (Contributor), Maxine Hong Kingston (Contributor), Anne Frank (Contributor), Virginia Woolf (Contributor), Emma Mashinini (Contributor), Onnie Lee Logan (Contributor), Sara Suleri (Contributor)
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"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 famousâMaya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Frank, Virginia Woolfâand the surprisingâEmma 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 WorldâĄLibrary Journal
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 0 pages
- Publisher W. W. Norton Company
- Publication Date April 17th 1995
- First Publication 10/01/93
- Language English
- ISBN 9780393312904
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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