The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Author: Anne Fadiman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0374533407

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child.


The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Language: en
Pages: 370
Authors: Anne Fadiman
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-24 - Publisher: Macmillan

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical cen
Days of Obligation
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Richard Rodriguez
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-11-01 - Publisher: Penguin

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A Pulitzer Prize Finalist Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action.
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Language: en
Pages: 180
Authors: Anne Fadiman
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-11-25 - Publisher: Macmillan

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A collection of essays discusses the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life.
Politics and the English Language
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: George Orwell
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-01 - Publisher: Renard Press Ltd

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George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of
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Language: en
Pages: 162
Authors: Anne Fadiman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-01 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty