Rosemary Mahoney, Author . Houghton Mifflin $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-618-02262-5
Most pilgrims are on a very personal quest in which they hope to encounter God, whether it be at a roadside shrine or under the soaring arches of a medieval cathedral. In this reflection on her experiences in Christian and Hindu holy places, the...
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Rosemary Mahoney, Author . Little, Brown $23.99 (273p) ISBN 978-0-316-10745-7
This is travel writing at its most enjoyable: the reader is taken on a great trip with an erudite travel companion soaking up scads of history, culture and literary knowledge, along with the scenery. The genesis for the trip is simple: the author'
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Rosemary Mahoney, Author Fawcett Books $18.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-449-90552-4
Mahoney spent a year in China teaching English at Hangzhou University, one year prior to the massacre at Tiananmen Square. She found her students earnest, polite, fatalistic, resigned to their dependency on parents and the state. Many were sharply...
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Rosemary Mahoney, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-395-60201-0
``There's only one sin in Ireland. Sex.'' So says Jean O'Brien, one of the progressive Irish women portrayed in this marvelously insightful, funny, disturbing, yet ultimately hopeful book. Mahoney ( The Early Arrival of Dreams ) looks at Irish women
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Rosemary Mahoney, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-47793-2
The tribulations suffered by a 17-year-old girl working for a stubborn, acerbic 73-year-old woman may sound like a potential whine-fest. But when the narrator is a writer as gifted as Mahoney, and the older woman is none other than Lillian Hellman,...
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Rosemary Mahoney. Little, Brown, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-04342-7
“The blind can well enough defend themselves,” says Mahoney (Down the Nile) in this beautiful book about a vibrant leader of the blind, Sabriye Tenberken. German-born Tenberken founded a school for blind children in Tibet—which later became Braille...
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