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What Happens Next? : Matters of Life and Death

What is life about but the continuous posing of the questions: what happens next, and what do we make of it when it arrives? In these highly evocative personal essays, Douglas Bauer weaves together the stories of his own and his parents' lives, the meals they ate, the work and rewards and regre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bauer, Douglas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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