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Learning to Fly
Mary Lee Settle
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Description for Learning to Fly
Hardcover. A literary testament showing how Mary Lee Settle's great novels followed the map of her remarkable life. Editor(s): Freeman, Anne. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 400.
Two years before her death in 2005, Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for fifty years." The result is this memoir, which picks up her life story where Addie (1998) left it, with a girl turning twenty, head over heels in love with the language of Shakespeare and determined to be an actress. That summer of 1938 her mother sends Mary Lee off to a theater apprenticeship, inadvertently setting her on a road few women of that era would have dared to travel. The road will lead to ... Read more
Two years before her death in 2005, Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for fifty years." The result is this memoir, which picks up her life story where Addie (1998) left it, with a girl turning twenty, head over heels in love with the language of Shakespeare and determined to be an actress. That summer of 1938 her mother sends Mary Lee off to a theater apprenticeship, inadvertently setting her on a road few women of that era would have dared to travel. The road will lead to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393057324
SKU
V9780393057324
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Ref
99-1
About Mary Lee Settle
Mary Lee Settle won the National Book Award for her novel Blood Ties and was the founder of the PEN/Faulkner Prize. She died in 2005.
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