{"product_id":"the-norton-book-of-womens-lives","title":"The Norton Book of Women's Lives","description":"\"This remarkable and wide-ranging collection, full of surprises, should encourage any woman who is trying to survive in a man's world, and enlighten any man who sincerely wants to understand contemporary women.\" ―Alison Lurie \"This magnificent, handsome, handful of an anthology . . .\"* includes sixty-one substantial selections from the twentieth-century literature of women's lives: autobiographies, journals, and memoirs. \"As varied in humanity as in geography,\"** the women whose life stories are collected here include the famous―Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Frank, Virginia Woolf―and the surprising―Emma Mashinini, a black South African labor organizer; Onnie Lee Logan, an Alabama \"granny\" midwife; Sara Suleri, an expatriate in America who reflects hilariously on the language of food in her native Pakistan.\n\n\"Destined to become a classic,\"‡ this treasury of women's lives, brimming with intelligence, passion, wit, and determination, is a celebration of life itself.\n\n*Hungry Mind Review\n\n**Washington Post Book World\n\n‡Library Journal\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0393312909\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0393312909.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Rose, Phyllis\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43331472588861,"sku":"BVV.0393312909.A","price":7.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0393312909-0.jpg?v=1783550695","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-norton-book-of-womens-lives","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}