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      Through the Ivory Gate

      by Rita Dove
      Published
      Oct 1992
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      288
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      A debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. When a woman returns to her Midwestern hometown as an artist-in-residence to teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means dealing with memories of racism, rejected love--and truths about her family. Author readings.

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      Oct 1993 Vintage ISBN13 9780679742401 ISBN10 0679742409
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      First Edition Oct 1992 Pantheon (UK) ISBN13 9780679416043 ISBN10 0679416048
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      Oct 1993 Turtleback Books ISBN13 9780613235181 ISBN10 0613235185
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      Oct 1993 Turtleback Books ISBN13 9780606177535 ISBN10 0606177531
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