Literate America Emerging: Seventeen New Readers Speak Out
- ISBN-10
- 0929722450
- ISBN-13
- 9780929722450
- Category
- Literary Collections / Essays
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- California State Library Foundation
- Author
- Barbara Prete
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