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A Working Girl Can't Win

and Other Poems

and Other Poems

By Deborah Garrison

By Deborah Garrison

By Deborah Garrison

By Deborah Garrison

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Feb 22, 2000 | ISBN 9780375755408

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Feb 19, 2009 | ISBN 9780307493392

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    About A Working Girl Can’t Win

    Deborah Garrison, whose work as an editor and writer has enlivened the pages of The New Yorker for more than a decade, evokes the characters and events of her everyday life with intense feeling and, more important, conjures up the universal dilemmas and pleasures of a young woman trying to come to terms with love and work.

    About A Working Girl Can’t Win

    Deborah Garrison, whose work as an editor and writer has enlivened the pages of The New Yorker for more than a decade, evokes the characters and events of her everyday life with intense feeling and, more important, conjures up the universal dilemmas and pleasures of a young woman trying to come to terms with love and work.

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    About Deborah Garrison

    Deborah Garrison is the author of A Working Girl Can’t Win: and Other Poems. For fifteen years, she worked on the editorial staff of The New Yorker and is now the poetry editor af Alfred A. Knopf and a senior… More about Deborah Garrison

    About Deborah Garrison

    Deborah Garrison is the author of A Working Girl Can’t Win: and Other Poems. For fifteen years, she worked on the editorial staff of The New Yorker and is now the poetry editor af Alfred A. Knopf and a senior… More about Deborah Garrison

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry | Classic Nonfiction

    Paperback | $14.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Feb 22, 2000 | 80 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9780375755408

    Category: Poetry | Classic Nonfiction

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Feb 19, 2009 | 80 Pages | ISBN 9780307493392

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    Praise

    "An intense, intelligent and wonderfully sly book of poems that should appeal as much to the general reader as to the poetry devotee."
    –The New York Times Book Review

    "With their short lines, sneaky rhymes, and casual leaps of metaphor, Garrison’s poems have a Dickinsonian intensity, and the Amherst
    recluse’s air of independent-minded, lightly populated singleness. Many a working girl will recognize herself in the poems’ running
    heroine, and male readers will part with her company reluctantly."–John Updike

    "Wry, sexy, appealing — with a wonderful lyric candor."–Elle

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