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My life as a villainess : essays / Laura Lippman.

Summary:

Collects the author's recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, her newspaper career, and her experiences as a novelist.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063000131 (paperback : large print)
  • ISBN: 006300013X (paperback : large print)
  • Physical Description: viii, 258 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First Harper Large Print edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Part I: Game of Crones -- The whole 60 -- Game of crones -- Natural selection -- The art of losing friends and alienating people -- Part II: This be the other verse -- My father's bar -- The thirty-first stocking -- Swing, interrupted -- Revered ware -- Part III: My life as a villainess -- The Waco kid -- Tweety bird -- My life as a villainess -- Part IV: Genius -- A fine bromance -- Saving Mrs. Banks -- My brilliant friend -- Men explain The wire to me.
Subject: Lippman, Laura, 1959-
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Genre: Large print books.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Covington Branch LT B L766 2020 (Text) 33126024485371 Large Print Biography Available -

  • HARPERCOLL

    New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, friendship, and other topics that will resonate with a large audience.  Her voice is wry and relatable, her takes often surprising.

    Meet the Woman Behind the Books…

    In this collection of new and previously published essays, New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman offers her take on a woman's life across the decades. Her childhood and school years, her newspaper career, her experiences as a novelist—Lippman finds universal touchstones in an unusual life that has as many twists as her award-winning crime fiction.

    Essays include:

    ·         Men Explain The Wire to Me

    ·         Game of Crones

    ·         My Life as a Villainess

    ·         My Father’s Bar

    ·         The 31st Stocking

    These candid essays offer long-time readers insight into the experiences that helped Lippman become one of the most successful crime novelists of her generation.


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