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Includes the name: Susan Wels

Obras por Susan Wels

Associated Works

A Day in the Life of Israel (1994) — Autor — 164 exemplares
Jerusalem: In the Shadow of Heaven (1996) — Autor — 35 exemplares
A Day in the Life of Thailand (1995) — Autor — 31 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1956-06-15
Sexo
female
Locais de residência
San Francisco, California, USA
Educação
Stanford University

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Críticas

Considered on an anecdote-by-anecdote level, Susan Wels writes well, but taken as a whole, An Assassin in Utopia is a bit of a mess. If there is a central point that Wels is trying to make about the assassination of the U.S. President James Garfield in the 1880s, it's lost amid all the tangents and digressions. I mean, it's certainly horrifyingly gripping to learn that two whales boiled to death in a fire at a "museum" run by P.T. Barnum, but what does it have to do with anything that the book's about? Not a terrible book, but an unnecessary one.… (mais)
 
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siriaeve | Dec 21, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
11
Also by
3
Membros
707
Popularidade
#35,840
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
3
ISBN
31
Línguas
2

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