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A Romantic Education
A Romantic Education
Author: Patricia Hampl
A now classic memoir, described by Doris Grumbach as "unusually elegant and meditative," once more available with an updated afterword by the author. Golden Prague seemed mostly gray when Patricia Hampl first went there in quest of her Czech heritage. In that bleak time, no one could have predicted the political upheaval awaiting Communist Europ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393319057
ISBN-10: 0393319059
Publication Date: 6/1/1999
Pages: 349
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Very interesting intelligent memoir of a young girl in St. Paul, Minnesota the granddaughter of Czech immigrants. The book is divided up into accounts of her childhood, her views on beauty/sophistication and her visits to Prague before and after the the Velvet Revolution and divorce.


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