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A better woman : a memoir / Susan Johnson.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.3.J635 Z463 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Susan, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Susan, 1956-.
- Johnson, Susan.
- Motherhood.
- Mothers and sons.
- Women novelists, Australian--20th century--Biography.
- Women novelists, Australian.
- Women authors, Australian--20th century--Biography.
- Women authors, Australian.
- Authors, Australian--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, Australian.
- Novelists, Australian--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, Australian.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 257 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Washington Square Press, 2002, c1999.
- Summary:
- One of Australia's most acclaimed and bestselling authors turns her penetrating gaze inward and crafts an exceptionally profound account of motherhood, revealing an author torn between two identities--woman and mother.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Getting ready to fall
- Metamorphosis
- A clock for Caspar
- The awful language
- Milk and ink
- Wild reality
- The full cup
- A good pair of hands
- Last days on dry land
- Life's alphabet
- The purse so deep
- Whatever's at hand
- Inside out
- Incidental envelope
- The measure of my days
- The pleasure of being
- Acknowledgments.
- ISBN:
- 0743432967
- OCLC:
- 49503078
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