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An edition of An American childhood (1987)

An American childhood

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A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.

Publish Date
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Language
English
Pages
396

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Subjects

American Authors, Authors, American, Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Childhood and youth, Nonfiction, Social life and customs, Youth, Women authors, Manners and customs, Authors, biography, Pennsylvania, social life and customs, Large type books

People

Annie Dillard

Places

Pittsburgh (Pa.)

Times

20th century

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Cover of: American Childhood
American Childhood
2007, HarperCollins
Electronic resource in English
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Cover of: An American Childhood
An American Childhood
October 1999, Tandem Library
in English
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Cover of: An American childhood
An American childhood
1993, HarperPerennial
in English
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Cover of: An American Childhood
An American Childhood
1989, Picador
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Cover of: An American childhood
An American childhood
1988, G.K. Hall
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An American childhood
1988, Perennial Library
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An American childhood
1988, Picador
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Cover of: An American childhood
An American childhood
1987, Harper & Row
in English
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An American childhood
1987, Harper & Row
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Book Details

Edition Notes

"Parts of this book have appeared, in different form, in the New York times magazine, American heritage magazine, and the New York times book review"--T.p. verso.

Published in
Boston, Mass
Series
G.K. Hall large print book series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.5409, B
Library of Congress
PS3554.I398 Z464 1988

The Physical Object

Pagination
396 p. (large print) ;
Number of pages
396

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2039896M
Internet Archive
americanchildhoo0000dill_h2d9
ISBN 10
0816144915
LCCN
88016421
Library Thing
4858
Goodreads
1153028

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First Sentence

"THE STORY STARTS BACK IN 1950, when I was five."

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