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No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Far-Flung Adventures Spanned the Century

by Emily Hahn

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Publisher Comments:

Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she crashed the all-male precincts of the University of Wisconsin geology department as an undergraduate, traveled alone to the Belgian Congo at age 25, was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai, bore the child of the head of the British Secret Service before World War II, and finally returned to New York to live and write in Greenwich Village. In this memoir, first published as essays in The New Yorker, Hahn writes vividly and amusingly about the people and places she came to know and love — with an eye for the curious and a heart for the exotic.

Synopsis:

Emily Hahn, staff writer for "The New Yorker" for more than 70 years, writes vividly and amusingly about the people and places she came to know and love, with an eye for the curious and a heart for the exotic.

Product Details

ISBN:
9781580050456
Subtitle:
The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the Century
Foreword:
McGrath, Shelia
Foreword:
McGrath, Shelia
Author:
Habo, Emily
Author:
Hahn, Emily
Introduction:
Cuthbertson, Ken
Author:
Cuthbertson, Ken
Publisher:
Seal Press (CA)
Location:
Seattle
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Adventure
Subject:
Journalists
Subject:
Travelers
Subject:
Novelists, American
Subject:
Environmentalists
Subject:
Hahn, Emily
Subject:
Journalists -- United States.
Subject:
Novelists, American -- 20th century.
Edition Number:
1st Seal Press ed.
Edition Description:
Seal Press
Series Volume:
292
Publication Date:
October 2000
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
312
Dimensions:
8.28x5.54x.98 in. .93 lbs.

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