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Midwife Of Venice
by Rich, Roberta
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Vg In Wraps. Faint Edgewear. Pages Clean & Tight. Pages: 335+.
- ISBN 10
- 1451657471
- ISBN 13
- 9781451657470
- Seller
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Vancouver, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Gallery Books. Vg In Wraps. Faint Edgewear. Pages Clean & Tight. Pages: 335+.. 2012. Later Printing. Trade Paperback..
Synopsis
Born in Buffalo, New York, Roberta Rich was until recently a lawyer practicing family law. She has also been a student, waitress, nurses’ aide, hospital admitting clerk, and factory assembly line worker. She currently divides her time between Vancouver, B.C. and Colima, Mexico. She is married and has one daughter, three step-children, a German Shepherd, tropical fish and many oversexed parakeets. The Midwife of Venice marks her debut as a novelist. “Much of the history of women is written in water,” says Rich of the impetus to create a literary heroine based on the history of the Jews in Venice, after touring the Venice ghetto on holiday. “Their accomplishments disappear as smoothly as a stone thrown in a pond. The creations of women are transitory — meals cooked, clothes mended, clothes washed, clothes sold (for one of the few professions Jews were permitted at the time was trade in second hand clothing), children born, children birthed, and children raised. After that trip, I started to read all I could find on the subject of daily life in the ghetto. There is precious little. And precious little about the daily lives of women in particular and how they gave birth. This book is a way to imagine a way into all that invisible history.”
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- Bookseller
- Vintage-Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MASTER290646I
- Title
- Midwife Of Venice
- Author
- Rich, Roberta
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback.
- Book Condition
- Used - Vg In Wraps. Faint Edgewear. Pages Clean & Tight. Pages: 335+.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1451657471
- ISBN 13
- 9781451657470
- Publisher
- Gallery Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- Literature, Fiction
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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