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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Av Anne Fadiman
Häftad, 2012
147 kr
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Now with a new Afterword from the author Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with …
Ex Libris
Confessions of a Common Reader
Av Anne Fadiman
Häftad, 2000
152 kr
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Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. EX LIBRIS wittily recounts a lifelong obsession …
At Large and at Small
Confessions of a Literary Hedonist
Av Anne Fadiman
E-bok, 2008
96 kr
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Butterflies, ice-cream, writing at night, playing word games...in this witty, intimate and delicious book Anne Fadiman ruminates on her passions, both literary and everyday. From mourning the demise of letter-writing to revealing a monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from Balzac's coffee addiction to …
Frog
And Other Essays
Av Anne Fadiman
Inbunden, 2026
324 kr
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A new collection of evocative personal essays from one of America's most beloved nonfiction writers, Anne Fadiman. In Frog , Anne Fadiman returns to her favorite genre, the essay, of which she is one of our most celebrated practitioners. Ranging in subject matter from her deceased frog, to archaic …
Frog
And Other Essays
Av Anne Fadiman
E-bok, 2026
252 kr
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A new collection of evocative personal essays from one of America's most beloved nonfiction writers, Anne Fadiman. In Frog, Anne Fadiman returns to her favorite genre, the essay, of which she is one of our most celebrated practitioners. Ranging in subject matter from her deceased frog, to archaic …
Wine Lover's Daughter
A Memoir
Av Anne Fadiman
E-bok, 2017
180 kr
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In The Wine Lover’s Daughter , Anne Fadiman examines—with all her characteristic wit and feeling—her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine. An appreciation of wine—along with a plummy upper-crust accent, …
At Large and At Small
Familiar Essays
Av Anne Fadiman
E-bok, 2008
194 kr
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In At Large and At Small , Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay—a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With the combination of humor and erudition that has …
Ex Libris
Confessions of a Common Reader
Av Anne Fadiman
E-bok, 2011
182 kr
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Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Anne Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists. Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father''s copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for …
Rereadings
Seventeen writers revisit books they love
Av Anne Fadiman
E-bok, 2006
182 kr
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Is a book the same book-or a reader the same reader-the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never. The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book Ex Libris (FSG, 1998) will find this volume …
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Av Anne Fadiman
E-bok, 1998
182 kr
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia''s parents and her …
Ex Libris
Aus dem Leben einer Bibliomanin
Av Anne Fadiman
E-bok, 2024
193 kr
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Anne Fadiman lebt das Leben einer echten Bibliomanin: Zum ersten Mal von Sex erfuhr sie aus Fanny Hill, das sie in der Bibliothek ihres Vaters fand. Ihr Ehemann schenkte ihr eines Geburtstags ganze 10 Kilo staubiger alter Bücher. Und einmal verschlang sie sogar vor lauter Verzweiflung die …
Ex Libris
Confesiones de una lectora
Av Anne Fadiman
E-bok, 2019
113 kr
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"Ex Libris proporcionará momentos placenteros que los adictos a los libros reconocerán."Alain de BottonComo ocurre con muchos lectores voraces, para Anne Fadiman los libros que ha leído se han convertido en otros tantos capítulos de su historia personal. Los dieciocho capítulos que componen este …
250 Great American Things
A semi-quincentennial celebration
Av County Highway, David Samuels m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
249 kr
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