Plaintext: Essays Paperback - 1997
by Mairs, Nancy
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- Title Plaintext: Essays
- Author Mairs, Nancy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Fifth Printing, 1997
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 168
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ
- Date 1997
- Features Dust Cover
- Bookseller's Inventory # 210438454
- ISBN 9780816513376 / 0816513376
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 5.89 x 1.42 in (22.76 x 14.96 x 3.61 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 85027043
- Dewey Decimal Code 814.54
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From the jacket flap
"The difficulties and despairs through which she has passed have left Nancy Mairs with unique and moving stories to convey, as well as with a strong voice to tell them." --New York Times Book Review
"These striking essays by Nancy Mairs are so touching and heartbreakingly honest that one often has to put the book down and rest emotionally before reading on. . . . Readable and compelling, written with intimacy . . . and a swagger." --San Francisco Chronicle
"The lugubriousness and self-pity which one might expect to surround these subjects is absent. The prose is cool and the wit as dry as sundown in Mairs' Arizona desert, the jokes as witty as the bright pink flowers on my spiny cactus." --Women's Review of Books
"These striking essays by Nancy Mairs are so touching and heartbreakingly honest that one often has to put the book down and rest emotionally before reading on. . . . Readable and compelling, written with intimacy . . . and a swagger." --San Francisco Chronicle
"The lugubriousness and self-pity which one might expect to surround these subjects is absent. The prose is cool and the wit as dry as sundown in Mairs' Arizona desert, the jokes as witty as the bright pink flowers on my spiny cactus." --Women's Review of Books