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Bury Me Standing

Autor Isabel Fonseca
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 oct 1996
Isabel Fonseca describes the four years she spent with Gypsies from Albania to Poland, listening to their stories, deciphering their taboos, and befriending their matriarchs, activists, and child prostitutes. A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing culture. 50 photos.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780679737438
ISBN-10: 067973743X
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 50 B&W PHOTOGRAPHS, 3 MAPS
Dimensiuni: 133 x 205 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:Vintage Departu.
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Descriere

Isabel Fonseca describes the four years she spent with Gypsies from Albania to Poland, listening to their stories, deciphering their taboos, and befriending their matriarchs, activists, and child prostitutes. A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing culture. 50 photos.

Notă biografică

Isabel Fonseca grew up on New York City. She went to Barnard College and Oxford University before settling in London, where she worked as an editor at the Times Literary Supplement. She has written for the TimesThe GuardianThe EconomistHarper's BazaarThe Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and The American Scholar, among other publications. Since its appearance in 1995, the national bestseller Bury Me Standing has been published in twenty-two countries. Fonseca is also the author of a novel, Attachment. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, Martin Amis.