Summer Reading 2007
Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis
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The Smith College summer reading selection for 2007 is the graphic memoir Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi. The book details the author's experiences growing up in Iran during the Revolution of 1979.
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For more information about the book and the summer reading program for first-year and entering students, please see the press release posted on the Smith College News Releases. Copies of Persepolis are available in Neilson Library, Smith College. Visit the Random House website, publisher of Persepolis, to view full page images from the book. The site also includes On Writing Persepolis, the author's comments about her inspiration and writing process, as well as many related links to reviews and background information. You can also look inside the book and view an excerpt at Amazon.com. |
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Resource Center Book Reviews To find book reviews of both Persepolis and its sequel Persepolis2,
search by keyword for <Marjane Satrapi> AND <Persepolis>
in the following databases of newspapers and periodical articles.
Use SC Links
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 Marjane Satrapi, Author of Persepolis |
to connect to full text when available.Audio Files
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| Barnes & Noble - Hear an excerpt from an interview with Marjane Satrapi. | click here |
| WNYC New York Public Radio - Listen to a 2004 interview with Marjane Satrapi by Jeffrey Toobin on the Leonard Lopate show. | click here |
Smith College News
Smith
College Summer Reading Program 2007
Summer reading program for first-year and all entering students.
Summer
Reading 2006
Mountains Beyond Mountains (Tracy
Kidder)
Summer
Reading 2005
Kettle Bottom (Diane Gilliam Fisher)
Summer
Reading 2004
The Gangster We Are All Looking For (Lê Thi Diem Thúy)
Summer Reading 2003
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Summer
Reading 2002
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (Barbara Ehrenreich)
Summer Reading
2001
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Anne Fadiman)
Help from a Librarian
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