About this title: Fraser brings to the 14 essays in this indispensable volume the sensitivity, freshness of observation, and offhand elegance that makes her reportage for "The New York Times" so legendary. "Wonderfully idiosyncratic".--"Newsday".
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Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780375701122ISBN:0375701125
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean-first 20 pages lightly wrinkled, doesn't affect text/ covers scuffed, moderate edge wear/ slight curl to front cover read more
Description: Very Good- As issued No Jacket. Spine lean, corner bumps, sticker residue on rear cover over ups, handling creases to the covers, pages age toned, and other light shopwear. read more
Edition: First Edition, 3rd Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, NY
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780375701122ISBN:0375701125
Description: Near Fine in None as Issued jacket. Text/BRAND NEW w/a whisper of margin discoloration. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/spotty indents to front. A Collection of 14 portraits of literary women by a literary woman whose craft is known to us through the New Yorker all the while tending a garden. The title is inspired by Virginia Woolf: "[The history of most women is] hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence. " The essays are: 1, Ornament & Silence (Virginia ... read more
Description: Good. Minimal damage to cover and binding. Pages show light use. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
Description: Good. Light shelving wear with minimal damage to cover and bindings. Pages show minor use. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very Good. 0375701125 paperback in very good condition. Pages are clean, binding is tight. Cover has slight shelf wear. Appears gently read. Satisfaction Guaranteed. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1998-04-28
ISBN-13:9780375701122ISBN:0375701125
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780375701122ISBN:0375701125
Description: New. In these fourteen essays, Fraser focuses on women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to one another and to the talented men who so often rendered them invisible. In Ornament and Silence we see Virginia Woolf, haunted a... read more
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