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Book Title: Such Alife
Item Length: 8.5in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: Lee Martin
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Special Interest / Literary, Personal Memoirs, American / General
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Literary Criticism
Item Weight: 9.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
