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Wild ride : earthquakes, sneezes, and other thrills / Bia Lowe.
LIBRA - Special AC5 .L86 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lowe, Bia, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 179 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First HarperPerennial edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperPerennial, 1996.
- Summary:
- A collection of personal essays on topics as diverse as the nature of allergies, a meditation on bats, and the significance of 1974, from a writer with a uniquely acute, subtle, and sophisticated voice.
- Contents:
- Allergy
- Wild ride
- Posterity
- Our kind
- Pet, noun & verb
- The smell of skunk
- Revelation
- Dancing schools
- Bats
- Blood
- Drummer
- Mothers and others, but also brothers
- Martian sighting in Hollywood
- Essential bodies
- Journey to the center of the earth
- Bugaboo in the American Museum of Natural History
- Cloven hooves & deviled hams
- Wings
- About being awake while driving from my high school reunion.
- ISBN:
- 0060926953
- 9780060926953
- OCLC:
- 34348004
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