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The Men in My Life
by Vivian Gornick
April 9, 2025 - April 10, 2025 (literary-criticism, women-and-their-dilemmas)

Gornick, V. (2008). The Men in My Life. The MIT Press.


The MIT Press, 2008. 216 pages. Hardcover. 9780262073035

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