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Original Essays | October 18, 2009

Victoria Hislop: IMG From Leprosy to Lorca — Strange Inspiration

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My first novel, The Island, was inspired by a chance visit to a tiny island leper colony off the coast of Greece on our summer holiday. It was a... Continue »
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Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories

by Gina Berriault

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This remarkable collection received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, a gold medal from the Commonwealth Club of California, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781887178389
Subtitle:
New and Selected Stories
Author:
Berriault, Gina
Publisher:
Counterpoint LLC
Location:
Washington, D.C. :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
General Fiction
Copyright:
1996
Edition Number:
1st Paperback ed.
Publication Date:
March 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
899x601x109 118
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