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Genre/Form: | History Travel writing Récits de voyages Erlebnisbericht Reisebericht |
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Named Person: | Alexandra Fuller; Alexandra Fuller; Alexandra Fuller; Alexandra Fuller |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alexandra Fuller |
ISBN: | 1594200165 9781594200168 0143035010 9780143035015 |
OCLC Number: | 53076005 |
Description: | 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Responsibility: | Alexandra Fuller. |
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Abstract:
The author details her unique friendship with one of her parents' neighbors in Zambia, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian war, and their mutual odyssey to revisit scenes of the war and come to terms with the horrors of warfare.
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"Searing, at times intoxicating prose... striking, intimately revealing..." -The Washington Post"Scribbling the Cat defies easy definition . . . [a] wild-hearted beauty of a book." -O, The Oprah Magazine"[Scribbling the Cat] is no more a simple profile of an ex-soldier than Fuller's first book, the acclaimed bestseller Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, was merely a memoir of growing up.... The story catches fire." -Newsweek Read more...
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- Fuller, Alexandra, -- 1969- -- Travel -- Zambia.
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- Zimbabwe -- History -- Chimurenga War, 1966-1980 -- Veterans.
- Zimbabwe -- Social conditions -- 1980-
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- Zimbabwe -- Conditions sociales -- 1980-
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- Fuller, Alexandra, -- 1969-
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