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Encyclopedia Of An Ordinary Life
Hardcover, 220 pages, Random House Inc, List Price: $23 | purchase
Book Summary
Offering a revealing glimpse of what it means to be a woman at the dawn of the twenty-first century, an offbeat memoir is written in the form of an encyclopedia in which the author chronicles her life through a series of alphabetical entries that cover both the trivial and the essential elements of her world as it ponders everything from love and truth to shower tiles.
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This book is about:
- Rosenthal, Amy Krouse,
- Women,
- Biography,
- United States
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