The art of vanishing, a memoir of wanderlust, Laura Smith
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- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships
- Biographies
- Wives
- Biography
- Missing persons + Investigation -- United States -- Case studies
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Wives -- United States -- Biography
- Marriage
- Missing persons
- Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Authors, American
- Adventure and adventurers -- United States -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Women + Social conditions
- Case studies
- 1900-2099
- Travel + Psychological aspects
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- United States
- Missing persons -- United States -- Biography
- Sex role
- Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Missing persons + Investigation
- Follett, Barbara Newhall, 1914-1939
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The art of vanishing, a memoir of wanderlust, Laura Smith
Language
eng
resource.biographical
individual biography
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illustrationsplates
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no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
The art of vanishing
Oclc number
990286613
Responsibility statement
Laura Smith
Sub title
a memoir of wanderlust
Summary
"At twenty-five, as her wedding date approached, [the author] began to feel trapped ... by the unsettling idea that it was hard to be at once married and free. [She] wanted her life to be different. She wanted her marriage to be different. And she found in the strangely captivating story of another restless young woman determined to live without constraints both an enticement and a challenge, Barbara Newhall Follett ... [who] in December 1939, when she was not much older than Laura, walked out of her apartment ... and vanished without a trace. [This memoir] is a riveting mystery and a piercing exploration of marriage and convention that asks deep and uncomfortable questions: Why do we give up on our childhood dreams? Is marriage a golden noose? Must we find ourselves in the same row houses with Pottery Barn lamps telling our kids to behave? "--Amazon.com
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