| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 464 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Over the mountain / Gail Godwin -- My Lucy friend who smells like corn / Sandra Cisneros -- Wildflowers / Susan Minot -- Celia behind me / Isabel Huggan -- Summer fruits / Kate Simon -- Cold frozen day / Louise Erdrich -- That green and crazy summer / Carson McCullers. Celia's time / Joan Chase -- First boyfriend / Sharon Olds Mona Van Duyn -- |
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Coming of age / Carolyn Heilbrun -- Miracles in the sky and on the road / Cynthia Kadohata -- Mrs. Moonlight / Helen Norris -- At seventy : a journal / May Sarton. -- Life you live (may not be your own) / J. California Cooper -- Goodbye to all that / Joan Didion. Blueprints / Barbara Kingsolver -- Breathing lessons / Anne Tyler -- "I don't |
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believe this" / Merrill Joan Gerber -- First thoughts on my second marriage / Phyllis Raphael -- The war begins / Alison Lurie -- Desire / Lynn Sharon Schwartz -- My ghost / Joan Gould. Are you mine? / Abby Frucht -- Adoption / Fran Castan -- Mother's love / Mary Gordon -- Anger and tenderness / Adrienne Rich -- Luciela Louise Turner / Gloria |
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Naylor -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- Mama / Ntozake Shange -- Not the Phil Donahue show / Kelly Cherry. -- Cathy, now and then / Jill McCorkle -- On the road / Shirley Abbott -- Four directions / Amy Tan -- Skin, where she touches me / Dorothy Allison -- Silent Dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- In my next life / Pam Houston -- Ruthy and Edie / |
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Grace Paley . -- Fifty is what forty used to be / Gloria Steinem -- Tooth for every child / Abigail Thomas -- Late loving -- Dottie meets Dick / Mary McCarthy -- " Forget what I just said" / Terry McMillan -- Me and my baby view the eclipse / Lee Smith -- Mouintain day / Jean Stafford -- Flip-flops / Perri Klass -- Greenwich village / Joyce Johnson -- |
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My Amoeba / Annie Dillard -- Mirrorings / Lucy Grealy -- Striptease / Lauren Slater -- |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- Women authors.
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| Added Author |
Norris, Gloria.
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| ISBN |
0393038602 |
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