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Prayer in Wind /

After a devastating diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer, biologist and poet Eva Saulitis found herself gripped by a long-buried childhood urge to pray. Finding little solace in the rote "from the fox-hole please Gods" arising unbidden in her head, she set herself the task of examining t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saulitis, Eva, 1963-2016
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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