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" 'Was ... ' : "
Geoff Ryman.
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BL
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980105
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b734475
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| Main Entry
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Ryman, Geoff
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'Was ... ' : : a novel /\ Geoff Ryman.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: HarperCollins,, 1992.
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356 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0002239310
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: 9780002239318
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| Abstract
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'Was' is woven from three main strands of narrative: the story of a girl named Dorothy who lives a sad and painful life in 19th-century Kansas and once made an impression on a young substitute teacher named Frank Baum; the story of Frances Gumm, whose difficult childhood forever haunted the persona she became when she changed her name to Judy Garland; and the story of Jonathan, an actor dying of AIDS who dreams of one day playing the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, and who, before he dies, traces Dorothy back to Kansas and Baum.
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Garland, Judy
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Garland, Judy.
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AIDS (Disease)-- Patients, Fiction.
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Frontier and pioneer life, Fiction.
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Oz (Imaginary place), Fiction.
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AIDS (Disease)-- Patients.
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Frontier and pioneer life.
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Oz (Imaginary place)
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Kansas, Fiction.
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Kansas.
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| Dewey Classification
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813.54
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PR6068.Y74W37 1992
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Baum, L. Frank, (Lyman Frank),1856-1919.
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