Moments of Truth: Twelve Twentieth-century Women WritersThis book looks at the process by which particular books materialized against the odds. This collection of essays on the most influential women writers of the first half of the last century is a mixture of close reading with a sensitivity to nuances, and biographical exploration. |
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