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Book Title: Amateur : an Independent Life of Letters
Item Length: 8.5in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 5.6in
Author: Wendy Lesser
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Women, Women Authors, Literary, Books & Reading
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Item Weight: 12.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
