Beware the furrow of the middlebrow: Searching for Paradise on The Oprah Winfrey Show

MFS - Modern Fiction Studies

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 350-373

  Aubry, Timothy ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 45149122328     PISSN: 00267724     EISSN: 1080658X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2006.0041     Document Type: Review

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