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The Republic of Imagination : America in three books / Azar Nafisi.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PE64.N34 A3 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nafisi, Azar, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nafisi, Azar.
- English teachers--Iran--Biography.
- English teachers.
- Iranian American women--Biography.
- Iranian American women.
- American fiction--Appreciation.
- United States.
- Iran.
- American fiction--Appreciation--United States.
- American fiction.
- Books and reading--United States.
- Books and reading.
- National characteristics in literature.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
- Twain, Mark.
- Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. Babbitt.
- Lewis, Sinclair.
- McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. Heart is a lonely hunter.
- McCullers, Carson.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 338 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- America in three books
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Viking, 2014.
- Summary:
- The best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran presents an impassioned tribute to the importance of fiction to democracy that blends memoir with close readings of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
- Contents:
- Part I. Huck
- Part II. Babbitt
- Part III. Carson
- Epilogue. Baldwin.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780670026067 ;
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