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How to Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays

Book ID
107006825
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc.
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
596 KB
Series
A Harvest Book
Edition
First Edition
Category
Standards
ISBN-13
9780156001250

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In these “impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays (Atlantic Monthly), “the Andy Rooney of academia” (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, bad coffee, taxi drivers, 33-function watches, soccer fans, and more. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

✦ Subjects

Эссе, очерк, этюд, набросок

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