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description: This remarkable and wide-ranging collection full of surprises should encourage any woman who is trying to survive in a man's world and enlighten any man who sincerely wants to understand contemporary women. Alison Lurie 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 famousMaya Angelou Maxine Hong Kingston Anne Frank Virginia Woolfand the surprisingEmma 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 World Library Journal
language: English
title: The Norton Book of Women's Lives
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company