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Are You Happy?: A Childhood Remembered
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Book Description
Emily Fox Gordon was a fatty, an academic failure, a schoolyard pariah, and a disappointment to her highly educated parents. And yet her early life was, as she puts it, "a succession of moments of radiant apprehension." Growing up in a Massachusetts college town in the fifties, she cultivated the writer's lifelong habit of translating experience into words. As she grew older, she became aware of h... More
Book Information
PublisherGardners Books
BindingHardcover (6 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages256
ISBN-10B000IOEVUS
Publication Date03/16/2006
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About Emily Fox Gordon (Author) : Emily Fox Gordon is a published author. Published credits of Emily Fox Gordon include Are You Happy?: A Childhood Remembered, Book of days.(writing personal essays versus memoirs) : An article from: A... more
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