Ex Utero
Laurie Foos. Mariner Books, $11 (208pp) ISBN 978-0-15-600464-0
Debut novelist Foos offers a satire about a woman who has lost her uterus. (Oct.)
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Reviewed on: 10/02/1996
Genre: Fiction
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