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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Schwartz, Lynne Sharon.
Ruined by reading : a life in books /
Lynne Sharon Schwartz.
p.   cm.
eISBN 978-0-8070-7100-7
ISBN 0-8070-7082-3 (cloth)
ISBN 0-8070-7083-1 (paper)
1. Schwartz, Lynne Sharon—Biography. I. Title.
PS3569.C567Z88   1996
813′.54—dc20

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