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Winterson, Jeanette, [date]
Art & lies: a piece for three voices and a bawd / Jeanette Winterson.
— 1st American ed.
p. cm.
IBN 0-679-44181-6
1. Artists—Psychology—Fiction.
2. Art and technology—Fiction.
3. Women artists—Fiction. 4. Sappho—Fiction.
5. Monologues, I. Title. II. Title: Art and lies.
PR6073.1558A78 1995
823.914—dc2o 95-3133
eISBN: 978-0-307-76364-8
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