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For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors /

"Laura Esther Wolfson's literary debut draws on years of immersion in the Russian and French languages; struggles to gain a basic understanding of Judaism, its history, and her place in it; and her search for a form to hold the stories that emerge from what she has lived, observed, overhea...

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Autor principal: Wolfson, Laura Esther (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University Of Iowa Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors -- The Husband Method -- Climbing Montmartre -- Proust at Rush Hour -- "Whose Mom Are You?" -- The Bagels in the Snowflake -- Haunting Synagogues -- The Book of Disaster -- Russian Afternoons -- On the Couch -- Infelicities of Style -- Losing the Nobel -- Other Incidents in the Precinct. 
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