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Against All Odds: The Lucy Scott Mitchum Story [Hardcover]
Worth buying if: You collect 1990s biographies from St Martins Press.
Skip it if: You want a recent or updated edition after 1996.
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Summary
Barbara Riefe's Against All Odds: The Lucy Scott Mitchum Story (St Martins Press, 1996) offers a single-author biographical account exploring Lucy Scott Mitchum's experiences and life arc in a general-interest hardcover.
Why this book now
Readers seeking a 1990s-era hardcover biography from St Martins Press will find Riefe's focused account timely for revisiting a compact life narrative.
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- You collect 1990s biographies from St Martins Press.
- You prefer single-author life narratives about individual resilience.
- You want a recent or updated edition after 1996.
- You expect a scholarly, heavily annotated study.
- You are specifically hunting for the newest framing rather than a backlist perspective.
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Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9780312860752
Worth buying if: You collect 1990s biographies from St Martins Press.
Skip it if: You want a recent or updated edition after 1996.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
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Reading commitment
Balanced Moderate time
This hardcover runs 304 pages and suits readers prepared for a focused, mid-length biographical read rather than a quick article or a multi-volume study.
What stands out here
This record highlights the original 1996 St Martins Press hardcover edition by Barbara Riefe, emphasizing the book's form and publication context.
Best way to approach it
Approach it as a narrative biography to be read steadily—one section at a time—to absorb the life events and connective storytelling across its 304 pages.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780312860752
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