I Want to Die Laughing

I Want to Die Laughing

ruth posner

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Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2021
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Poesía
ISBN:
9781470974367
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.Ruth is a Holocaust survivor, born in Poland and cameto England in 1945 at the age of sixteen having lost all her family during the war. She survived under an assumed name! She has had two careers, first as a dancer and later as an actress. She also taught movement at major acting colleges in London & New YorkAs a response to and reflection on the world in which we live these verses express her feelings and thoughts.

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