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The world before mirrors

Author:Joan Connor

Summary:Traveling between the poles of Ohio and Vermont, childhood and motherhood, the author writes of a peripatetic family whose oddities make the quirks of a Thurber household seem downright subdued; and of a thirteen-year-old son as an unlikely companion through the torments of middle-aged dating.

Print Book, English, 2006

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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2006

Series:

River teeth literary nonfiction prize (Series)

Physical Description:148 pages ; 22 cm.

ISBN:

9780803264557, 0803264550

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:62090791

Subjects:

American wit and humor

Contents:

Sleeping with Thurber

My son at thirteen

The waiting room

Forsaken places

Raising Abel

The world before mirrors

Bone key

Masque

Abandoned shoe

The flying rabbit and the disappearing playground

Tolstoy's daughter

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