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Plain Text: Essays - Couverture souple

Mairs, Nancy

 
9780816513376: Plain Text: Essays
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0816513376 ISBN 13 : 9780816513376
Editeur : University of Arizona Press, 1992

Synopsis

Plaintext has won critical acclaim and a wide audience for author Nancy Mairs's unapologetic views on agoraphobia, multiple sclerosis, and the challenges of being a woman in a patriarchal world. The provocative collection includes the widely anthologized essays "On Being a Cripple" and "On Not Liking Sex."

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À propos de l'auteur

Nancy Mairs was born in Long Beach, California, and grew up in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. She received an AB in English literature from Wheaton College (Massachusetts). From 1966 to 1972 she worked as a technical editor at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the MIT Press, and the Harvard Law School. In 1972 she moved to Tucson, Arizona, and taught high school and college composition courses while studying for an MFA in creative writing (poetry) and a PhD in English literature, which she was awarded in 1984. In the same year, her book of poems In All the Rooms of the Yellow House received first prize for poetry in the Western States Book Awards competition.

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Éditeur
University of Arizona Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0816513376
ISBN 13 
9780816513376
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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