The Life I Really Lived

by Jessamyn West

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Complex story of the loves and affairs of a woman writer who starts out in Kentucky and ends up in California.

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Canonical title: The Life I Really Lived
Original publication date: 1979

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Genres: Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS: 813.5 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999
LCC: PS3545 .E8315 .L5 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
BISAC: FIC FICTION General

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Languages: English
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