Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
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Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters by Lois Ames ; Linda Gray Sexton is a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. This edition is listed as 1992 • Houghton Mifflin • 433 pages.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780395628805
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