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You, me and the insects : Mysore, India / Barbara Henning.
LIBRA - Rare PS3558.E4966 Y68 2005 Mathews copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henning, Barbara, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teacher-student relationships--Fiction.
- Teacher-student relationships.
- Gurus.
- India.
- Americans--India--Fiction.
- Americans.
- Gurus--India--Fiction.
- Mysore (India)--Fiction.
- Mysore (India).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mathews, Harry, 1930- (former owner)
- Henning, Barbara (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 306 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York City : Spuyten Duyvil, 2005.
- Summary:
- In the East Village, New York City, Gina prepares for a two month trip to India to study with a famous yogi, Harihara.E After leaving her grown children at the airport, she begins her obsessive journal project, remembering her life in Detroit with her late husband Lenny and recording for her publisher all her actions and observations in India. In India, she will also work on a series of drawings from photographs of Lenny, while corresponding with a Russian lover, Dimitri, a teacher of an Indian martial art.E Yoga practiced in India by Americans
- Notes:
- Blurb from Harry Mathews on back of dust jacket.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Mathews Collection copy has inscription from author to Mathews: " For Harry, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Love Barb 12/3/2005"
- ISBN:
- 0972066268
- 9780972066266
- OCLC:
- 934531082
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