Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World by Sarah Vowell

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Take the Cannoli is a moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene. Hailed by Newsweek as a "cranky stylist with talent to burn," Vowell has an irresistible voice — caustic and sympathetic, insightful and double-edged —... read more

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“Looking back, I wonder why a gangster movie kidnapped my life. The Godfather had nothing to do with me. I was a feminist, not Italian, and I went to school at Montana State. I had never set foot in New York, thought ravioli came only in a can, and wasn't blind to the fact that all the women in the film were either virgins, mothers, whores, or Diane Keaton.”

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IF YOU WERE PASSING BY THE HOUSE WHERE I GREW UP DURING MY TEENAGE years and it happened to be before Election Day, you wouldn't have needed to come inside to see that it was a house divided.

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Sarah Vowell (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0684867974
Page Count: 224

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Library of Congress: AC 8 .V76 2000
Dewey: 081

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Reading Level: Adults

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Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Professionals & Academics › Journalists
Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Specific Groups › Women
Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Arts & Literature › Entertainers
Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Popular Culture
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