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Susan Sheehan

The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer

Hobbies, Collecting, and Other Passionate Pursuits

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We Americans love to look at ourselves. How we vote, where we work, what we think about church and school -- studying ourselves is a national pastime. What has been missing in all this self-examination, until now, is a book about the greatest national obsessions of all: the hobbies we pursue, the collections and amateur sports to which we devote so much of our lives. The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer chronicles the amazing variety of ways in which we relax, compete with others and ourselves, and indulge some of our richest fantasies. Here are wonderfully warm and witty accounts of Americans… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Means, Howard
  • ISBN: 978-1-4165-7520-7
  • EAN: 9781416575207
  • Produktnummer: 3368413
  • Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.0 cm 290 g
  • Gewicht: 290

Über den Autor


Susan Sheehan is the author of seven books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Is There No Place on Earth for Me? She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1961 and has written for The New York Times and Architectural Digest, where she is a contributing writer. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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