Midnight Lemonade
Ann Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. Delta, $11.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-385-31251-6
A touching and humorous Southern woman's bildungsroman. (June)
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Reviewed on: 05/02/1994
Genre: Fiction
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