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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 1. Get Thee to a Bakery -- 2. This Body Offers to Carry Us -- 3. A Minor Memory -- 4. Con te partirò -- 5. On Wine Tasting and the Limits of Winespeak -- 6. Learning to Like It -- 7. You're Not Going to Eat That, Are You? -- 8. Clean Up Your Act -- 9. Alien Pleasures -- 10. Ecumenical Meat Loaf -- 11. Good Eggs -- 12. Bombolone, Venus, Boar -- 13. Speak to Me -- 14. Do the Work -- 15. Take the Money -- 16. Listen to Teresa -- 17. Anyone Who Had a Heart -- 18. Drop It -- 19. Teeth First -- 20. Back to Comanche -- 21. Smitty |
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22. Still Alive -- 23. Badass -- 24. Stand Up -- 25. Waterful -- 26. We're Melting -- 27. Monsters -- 28. Fit But -- 29. Quit It -- 30. A Suite, a Swim, a Fish -- 31. Me and Velociraptor and Forrest Gump -- 32. Rock Me -- 33. Faces in the Stone -- 34. Where We Are Was Once a Sea -- 35. But Why Florida? -- 36. Coffee Ma'am -- 37. In Search Of -- 38. The Efficacy of Loud -- 39. Yoga, Space, and Bragadin's Skin -- 40. Don't Wait -- 41. Third Eye Seeing -- 42. This American Smile |
| Summary |
Part memoir, part travelogue, Get Thee to a Bakery explores both humorous and harrowing aspects of growing older and making sense of social, technological, and environmental change. |
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Bailey, Richard, 1952-
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Bailey, Richard, 1952- -- Travel.
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Bailey, Richard, 1952-
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Older men -- United States -- Biography.
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Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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College teachers -- United States -- Biography.
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Food habits.
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Global environmental change.
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Feeding Behavior.
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Authors, American.
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College teachers.
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Food habits.
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Global environmental change.
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Older men.
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Travel.
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United States.
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2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiography.
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Biography.
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Essays. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781496225511 1496225511 (DLC) 2020025984 (OCoLC)1201693206 |
| ISBN |
9781496225634 (electronic book) |
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1496225635 (electronic book) |
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