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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Anca Vlasopolos |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Anca Vlasopolos |
| ISBN: | 023112130X 9780231121309 |
| OCLC Number: | 43296815 |
| Description: | xv, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Mouthfuls -- Gatekeepers -- Out of the Mouth -- The Vocabulary of Faith -- Mud Miracles -- To Eat or Not to Eat -- Bucharest -- Contingencies -- Telling Tales -- Growing Boys -- Paris -- Brussels -- Walls -- Frankfurt Passage -- Misplacing Detroit -- Where All the Lights Were Bright -- Variations on the Pastoral -- Sub-Urban Skies -- Endings, Continuities -- Returns. |
| Responsibility: | Anca Vlasopolos. |
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Neither Anca nor her mother has a return address, and this absence, like her mother's stories of Auschwitz, sensitively retold, haunts the book. -- Robert Eaglestone Times Literary Supplement [Vlasopolos's] insightful autobiography easily reads like fiction... Vlasopolos is clearly as talented as she is erudite... her memoir conveys... a unique perspicacity worthy of accolades. Library Journal Read more...
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