**Bridget Jones meets *The Exorcist* in this wickedly funny, dark novel about one woman's post-cancer retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her** It wasn't just the bad breakup that turned Eleanor Mellett's life upside down. It was the cancer. And all the demons that came wit
On the Bus with Rosa Parks
โ Scribed by Rita Dove
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company;Proquest LLC
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 33 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A dazzling new collection by the former Poet Laureate of the United States.In these brilliant poems, Rita Dove treats us to a panoply of human endeavor, shot through with the electrifying jazz of her lyric elegance. From the opening sequence, "Cameos", to the civil rights struggle of the final sequence, she explores the intersection of individual fate and history.
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