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Can you ever forgive me? : memoirs of a literary forger Lee Israel
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Staff Reference LANDAU PN 171 .F6 I77 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Israel, Lee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Israel, Lee.
- Forgers--United States--Biography.
- Forgers.
- Literary forgeries and mystifications.
- Letters--Forgeries.
- Letters.
- Local Subjects:
- Israel, Lee.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 129 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- 1st Simon & Schuster hbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.
- Summary:
- An audacious memoir by a down-on-her-luck writer, "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" is Israel's story of the astonishing literary forgeries she conceived and successfully executed for almost two years.
- Contents:
- Brick and pigeons
- Wretched and excessive
- A Mayan minute
- The flies
- Slippery slope
- Cousin Sidney
- Louise
- Riffing
- Faux Louise
- Dorothy
- Noel
- The jig is up
- Violets for his furs
- Trimester two
- This ain't no country club, Lee
- Prep time
- My third trimester.
- Local Notes:
- The Landau-Savedoff Memorial Reference Collection on Cultural & Heritage Purloinment.
- ISBN:
- 9781416588672
- 1416588671
- OCLC:
- 191933834
- Online:
- Publisher description
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