Praise older women

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  Free Postage Within SA for Orders Over R900! Softcover. 1996. First edition. Publisher: Snailpress. 48 pages. Very good condition. Africana / Poetry Additional photos on request. Please ask any questions before placing your order.  Many more books on sale, click here to browse!

  Author(s): Bertrand Russell  Title:      In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays  ISBN: n/a  Publisher: George Allen and Unwin  This Edition: 1st edition, 4th printing  Year of Publication: 1948  Place Of Publication: Great Britain First Published: 1935  Binding: hardcover Dustjacket: none/missing  Number of pages: 231 Weight: 278g  Condition:   This is an ex-library book, has stamps etc.  An older book though still in reasonably good condition, binding sound  -has previous owner’s name written inside  

 Three Women: Marge Piercy   Suzanne Blume has known success and disappointment in equal measure. A respected lawyer who survived two marriages and put two children through college, she now faces the disquieting prospect of her wayward older daughter moving back home. But more troubling still is the news that her mother, a woman of legendary independence who has never truly accepted her daughter nor approved of her choices, has been felled by age and illness. And, for the first time in her life, she needs Suzanne's help. Intertwining the lives of three generations of contemporary women, master storyteller Marge Piercy plunges into the deepest, most elemental basics of life -- love, aging, illness, and death -- and emerges with a brave, compassionate exploration of the volatile ground between mothers and daughters.  

1976 first edition paperback. Poetry. R46 postage in SA. Dedicated and signed in front. Some pencil notes inside book.

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