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Learning to Drive And Other Life Stories

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ISBN-10: 0812973542

ISBN-13: 9780812973549

Edition: N/A

Authors: Katha Pollitt

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Celebrated for her award-winning political columns, criticism, and poetry, Katha Pollitt now shows us another side of her talent.Learning to Driveis a surprising, revealing, and entertaining collection of stories drawn from the author’s own life. With deep feeling and sharp insight, Pollitt writes about the death of her father; the sad but noble final days of a leftist study group of which she was a member; and the betrayal and heartbreak inflicted by a man who seriously deceived her. (Her infinitely patient, gentle driving instructor points out her weakness–“Observation, Katha, observation!”) She also offers a candid view of her preoccupation with her ex-lover’s haunting presence on the…    
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Book details

List price: $14.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/9/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.93" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Rory Dicker is Assistant Professor of English at Westminster College. She lives in Columbia, Missouri. Alison Piepmeier is Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies at Vanderbilt University. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Katha Pollitt is a poet, essayist, and columnist for 'The Nation.' Jennifer Baumgardner writes for various magazines, including 'Ms,' 'Harper's,' and 'Elle,' and is the coauthor (with Amy Richards) of 'Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future.'