This wonderfully engaging intellectual autobiography explores the intersection of art and experience. Using her own experience as a starting point, Lesser explores both how passions are discovered in life and how passions discover us.
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This wonderfully engaging intellectual autobiography explores the intersection of art and experience. Using her own experience as a starting point, Lesser explores both how passions are discovered in life and how passions discover us.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Good + No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Beige & green boards with gilt lettering, slightly scuffed. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. All pages secure in binding.
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Good in Good jacket. BX3-A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in good-condition with a dust jacket in very good-condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in cream paper covered boards quarter bound in dark green cloth with gold lettering and a graphic on the spine with minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library label and stamps on the front endpaper, title page, and top outside paper edges plus the dust jacket endflaps have been glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards plus a section (about 2"x4.75") of the front endpaper has been removed as part of the library's removal process. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus some light soiling overall plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve with the usual library label on the spine wrapping onto the back plus the endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. An inquiry into how people discover their passions told through the author's own recounting of choices she has made in pursuit of an independent life of letters. The author is a winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation and is a winner of the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters. 274p.
