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Retreads

Prudence Mackintosh

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Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas
Año de edición:
2002
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Humor
ISBN:
9780292752702
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Retreads tells the middle of the story begun in Thundering Sneakers and concluded in Sneaking Out. In this collection of essays, Prudence Mackintosh follows her sons through the 'tween' years between little boyhood and adolescence. Vividly portraying the chaos that descends on a house full of active children, she also records the many first times and last times that give poignancy to the middle years of motherhood.

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