Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire

by Judith Thurman

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"Cleopatra's Nose is an exuberant gathering of essays and profiles representing twenty years of Judith Thurman's celebrated writing, particularly her fascination with human vanity, femininity, and "women's work"--Haute couture to literature to commanding empires."--Jacket.

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Judith Thurman
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Judith Thurman is a staff writer at The New Yorker.

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Fiction and Literature
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814.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American essays in English 20th Century 1945-1999
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PS3620 .H88 .C57 — Language and Literature American literature
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