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A Good Read: Elaine Showalter & Romesh Gunesekera

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19/08/2003

Elaine Showalter & Romesh Gunesekera

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Elaine Showalter and Romesh Gunesekera on books by Willa Cather and Primo Levi.

4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Elaine Showalter and Romesh Gunesekera on books by Willa Cather, Leonardo Sciascia and Primo Levi. From August 2003.

Sue MacGregor and her guests - American critic, Elaine Showalter and Sri Lankan writer, Romesh Gunesekera - discuss books by Willa Cather, Leonardo Sciascia and Primo Levi. From 2003. 

The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi 
Publisher: Abacus

The Professor's House by Willa Cather
Publisher: Virago

Sicilian Uncles by Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher: Granta.

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