The Woman at the Washington Zoo
- Synopsis
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Essays, profiles, and columns from Williams' career as a reporter for the Washington Post and Vanity Fair cover politics, gender, family life, and her own mortality; the collection's final section contains Williams' writing about her fight with cancer, which killed her in 2005. Almost as soon as she arrived in the city in 1984, writes editor Noah--who was her husband--Washington became her subject. But it was her ability to probe beneath the town's polished marble surface that readers most appreciated. "A Marjorie Williams profile was conspicuous for its almost frightening psychological acuity, its painstaking accumulation of reportorial detail, and its elegant prose," Noah writes in his touching introduction. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 2005
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781586485412
- Publisher:
- Perseus
- Date of Addition:
- 09/20/12
- Copyrighted By:
- Timothy Noah.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
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English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
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History,
Nonfiction,
Biographies and Memoirs,
Social Studies,
Language Arts,
Communication,
Politics and Government,
Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
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