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The joys of motherhood / a novel by Buchi Emecheta.
Van Pelt Library PR9387.9.E36 J69 1979
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Emecheta, Buchi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motherhood--Nigeria--Fiction.
- Motherhood.
- Nigeria--Fiction.
- Nigeria.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : George Braziller, 1979.
- Contents:
- The Mother
- The Mother's Mother
- The Mother's Early Life
- First Shocks of Motherhood
- A Failed Woman
- A Man is Never Ugly
- The Duty of a Father
- The Rich and the Poor
- A Mother's Investment
- A Man needs Many Wives
- Sharing a Husband
- Men at War
- A Good Daughter
- Women Alone
- The Soldier Father
- A Mother of Clever Children
- A Daughter's Honour
- The Canonised Mother.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Great Britain by Allison & Busby Limited."
- "Jacket design by Catherine Stock."
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is ninth paperback printing, 1991.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy is "First Edition".
- Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB The Library of Joanna Banks".
- ISBN:
- 0807609145 :
- OCLC:
- 4515411
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