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How to Make an American Quilt

Whitney Otto, Author Ballantine Books $6.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-345-37080-8

Otto's remarkable debut, a series of vignettes that cumulatively reveal the lives of eight members of a women's sewing group, spent seven weeks on PW 's hardcover bestseller list and was a Literary Guild alternate. (Apr.)
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Reviewed on: 02/03/1992

Release date: 02/01/1992

Genre: Fiction

Paperback - 240 pages - 9780345388964

Hardcover - 179 pages - 9780679400707

Analog Audio Cassette - 2 pages - 9780679409403

Mass Market Paperbound - 254 pages - 9780345370808

Prebound-Other - 254 pages - 9780613101387

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