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02726aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 C6CADD66D5EB11E9AC9383FD96128E48 003 SILO 005 20190913010020 008 181001t20192019cau 000 0aeng d 020 $a 188328578X 020 $a 9781883285784 040 $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3562.U7 $b Z46 2019 082 04 $a 814.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Lurie, Alison, $e author. 240 10 $a Essays. $k Selections. 245 10 $a Words and worlds : $b from autobiography to zippers / $c Alison Lurie. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Encino, CA : $b Delphinium Books, $c [2019] 300 $a 230 pages ; $c 22 cm. 500 $a Autobiographical essays. 505 00 $g Clothes. $t Life after fashion. $t Their Harvard -- $g Words and worlds. $t What happened in Hamlet ; $t The language of deconstruction ; $t My name or yours? ; $t Witches old and new -- $g People. $t Archie's gifts ; $t Barbara Epstein ; $t Edward Gorey ; $t James Merrill -- $g Children's books. $t The good bad boy : Pinocchio ; $t The royal family of elephants ; $t Saying no to Narnia ; $t Harry Potter revisited ; $t Bad husbands ; $t Rapunzel : the girl in the tower -- $g Clothes. $t Breaking the laws of fashion ; $t Aprons ; $t The mystery of knitting ; $t Zippers ; $t Life after fashion. 520 $a "In this candid and bluntly humorous collection of essays on a wide range of topics, Lurie begins with a portrait of her life at Radcliffe during World War II when the smartest women in the country were treated like second-class citizens, the most scholarly among them expected to work in factories to support the war effort. She moves on to her unheralded, clumsy attempts and near failure to be a writer and, finally having reached a level of recognition, the good fortune of forming close relationships with other writers and editors and great thinkers, including Robert Silver of The New York Review of Books, the poet James Merrill, and the illustrator, Edward Gorey. On this fascinating journey, we are amused by her insightful, often delightfully funny meditations on topics such as "deconstruction" and beloved children's literature series such as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter, and Babar. Words and Worlds is a crowning reminiscence from a much beloved and celebrated writer"-- $c Publisher's description. 600 10 $a Lurie, Alison. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Literature, Modern $x History and criticism. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 2 952 $l NYPE343 $d 20191214011522.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20190913010114.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C6CADD66D5EB11E9AC9383FD96128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search