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02659aam a2200481Ii 4500 001 95BB75F4210C11E8B41F702297128E48 003 SILO 005 20180306010350 008 170616t20182018nyuaf 000 0beng d 020 $a 039956358X 020 $a 9780399563584 035 $a (OCoLC)990286613 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d YDX $d BDX $d CDX $d ZQP $d DAD $d JAO $d CPL $d OCLCF $d PFLCL $d IGA $d IMT $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS3511.O215 $b Z86 2018 082 04 $a 813/.52 $2 23 100 1 $a Smith, Laura, $d 1986- $e author. 245 14 $a The art of vanishing : $b a memoir of wanderlust / $c Laura Smith. 264 1 $a New York, New York : $b Viking, $c [2018] 300 $a 261 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "At twenty-five, as her wedding date approached, [the author] began to feel trapped ... by the unsettling idea that it was hard to be at once married and free. [She] wanted her life to be different. She wanted her marriage to be different. And she found in the strangely captivating story of another restless young woman determined to live without constraints both an enticement and a challenge, Barbara Newhall Follett ... [who] in December 1939, when she was not much older than Laura, walked out of her apartment ... and vanished without a trace. [This memoir] is a riveting mystery and a piercing exploration of marriage and convention that asks deep and uncomfortable questions: Why do we give up on our childhood dreams? Is marriage a golden noose? Must we find ourselves in the same row houses with Pottery Barn lamps telling our kids to behave? "--Amazon.com. 600 10 $a Follett, Barbara Newhall, $d 1914-1939. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Wives $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Missing persons $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Missing persons $x Investigation $z United States $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Marriage. 650 0 $a Sex role. 650 0 $a Women $z United States $x Social conditions $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Women $z United States $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 9 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409031519.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017020237.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012022702.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006120140.0 952 $l VFPB334 $d 20180621010959.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20180427010351.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20180426011548.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180403021857.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20180306013940.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=95BB75F4210C11E8B41F702297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search