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Verlag: Vintage Books, 1990, 1990
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Conway, Jill Ker, 1934-2018. The road from Coorain. Vintage Books, 1990, 238pp., PAPERBACK, very good. Vintage Books Edition. 9780679724360 ISBN 0679724362.
Verlag: New York: Vintage Books, 1990, 1990
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Conway, Jill Ker, 1934-2018. The Road from Coorain. New York: Vintage Books, 1990, First Vintage books edition, August 1990, 238pp., PAPERBACK, cover price $8.95, very good, appears unused. Cover design by Pamela Scheier. 9780679724360 ISBN 0679724362.
Verlag: New York: Vintage Books, 2002, 2002
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Conway, Jill Ker, 1934-2018. A woman's education. New York: Vintage Books, 2002, vii, 143pp., PAPERBACK, cover price $12.00, good lightly used copy, crease marks on spine. The beloved bestselling author of The Road from Coorain and True North continues her remarkable autobiography with an account of her decade as the first woman president of Smith College. Conway took the helm at Smith at a time of the encroachment of coeducation and of exploding culture wars. With Smith's future at stake, she batfled stuffy faculty, ossified traditions, and skeptical donors to turn it into a place committed to preparing young women for the new realities of the future. Through it all, Conway served as an inspiration to thousands of students while balancing the demands of her public role against the private pressures of coping with her husband's bipolar disorder. A moving tribute to the value of singlesex education and to one woman's triumphs, A Woman's Education is sure to become a classic alongside Katharine Graham's Personal History. 9780679744627 ISBN 0679744622.
Verlag: London: Minerva, 1992, 1992
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Conway, Jill Ker, 1934-2018. The road from Coorain. London: Minerva, 1992, 237pp., PAPERBACK, cover price 5.99 pounds, very good, BUT first word of title on cover rubbed off from rough removal of label, appears unused, paper lightly tanned due to age. 9780749398941 ISBN 0749398949.
Verlag: London: Vintage, 2003, 2003
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Conway, Jill Ker, 1934-2018. A woman's education: the road from Coorain leads to Smith College. London: Vintage, 2003, with number line ending in 1, vii, 143pp., PAPERBACK, cover price 7.99 pounds, very good, appears unused. Offers an assessment of the author's life, passions, possibilities and the making of her decision to leave Canada and return to the United States to become Smith's first woman president. 9780099579915 ISBN 009957991X.
Verlag: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990, 1990
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Conway, Jill Ker, 1934-2018. The road from Coorain. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990, 13th printing July 1990, 238pp., very good price-clipped dust-jacket, very good white half-cloth. 9780394574561 ISBN 0394574567.
Verlag: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994, 1994
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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Conway, Jill Ker, 1934-2018. True north: a memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994, stated First Edition, xiii, 250pp., very good dust-jacket, cover price $23.00, very good brown half-cloth with gray boards, attractive copy. With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed - and beloved - bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story., She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by a hunger to know and to understand, boarding a plane that would carry her far from her Australian homeland. As True North begins she lands, appropriately enough, in a hurricane, in New York., And is soon at Harvard, a graduate student in history experiencing both exhilaration and culture shock; discovering among friends of many backgrounds an easier sociability than she has ever known; delighting in classes that seem charged with energy, and in the perception that ideas were being taken seriously - yet still feeling like an extraterrestrial on the American planet., We see her joining with five other women to form a household that becomes an "almost magical," hilarious, and harmonious community - the community that functions as her family when she meets the Harvard professor and housemaster who will become her husband, John Conway, himself a historian, Canadian born and bred, decorated for heroism in World War II - the complex man whose mind and spirit complement her own., We see them marrying and learning to live together - during a year at Oxford, in Rome, and as they settle into the new world of Canadian university life - happy with each other, while coping, not always well, with her classically obsessive thesis writing, her as-yet-unresolved conflict with her mother, his periodic bouts of depression, and her realization that even though John's integrity, courage, and devotion to humanistic learning have become the compass point - the true north - by which she steers, there will be times when she has to navigate alone. 9780679420996 ISBN 0679420991.