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The Dyas Sisters

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In The Dyas Sisters, you’re met with personal history write large. Richard Gregory asked Grace and Veronica if they would write a book in which they tried to describe everything that has happened in their lifetime, knowing from the outset that this was an impossible task. Every memory suggests another, each new approach to writing illuminates an alternative.

Artist / Author Grace and Veronica Dyas, Richard Gregory
Publisher Quarantine
Reference P2136
Date 2013
Type Publication

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