Jo Ann Beard
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The "utterly compelling, uncommonly beautiful" collection of personal essays (Newsweek) that established Jo Ann Beard as one of the leading writers of her generation.
Cousins, mothers, sisters, dolls, dogs, best friends: these are the fixed points in Jo Ann Beard's universe, the constants that remain when the boys of her youth — and then men who replace them — are gone. This widely praised collection of autobiographical essays...
Cousins, mothers, sisters, dolls, dogs, best friends: these are the fixed points in Jo Ann Beard's universe, the constants that remain when the boys of her youth — and then men who replace them — are gone. This widely praised collection of autobiographical essays...
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Un libro luminoso, divertido y desgarrador sobre la vida y sus momentos decisivos cuya cautivadora escritura nos recuerda a Mary Karr, Annie Dillard o Joan Didion.
"El cuarto estado de la materia", su célebre relato de la masacre en la Universidad de Iowa, lugar de trabajo de la autora, se publicó en The New Yorker, Jo Ann Beard se convirtió en una de las escritoras más influyentes de Estados Unidos y contribuyó a forjar una nueva generación...