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Book Title: Autobiography of Red : a Novel in Verse
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1999
Topic: Canadian, Visionary & Metaphysical, General, Literary
Item Height: 0.4 in
Genre: Poetry, Fiction
Item Weight: 5.2 Oz
Author: Anne Carson
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Book Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
