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Book Title: Fierce Attachments : a Memoir
Item Length: 8.2in
Item Height: 0.7in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: Vivian Gornick
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Women Authors, Personal Memoirs, General, Parenting / Motherhood
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Year: 2005
Genre: Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Item Weight: 7.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
