MARC details
000 -LEADER |
fixed length control field |
02950cam a2200385 a 4500 |
001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
control field |
29470359 |
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
control field |
OCoLC |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
control field |
20190804103111.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
fixed length control field |
931116s1994 nyu 000 0 eng |
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
93045302 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0679420991 : |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780679420996 |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
(OCoLC)29470359 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
Transcribing agency |
DLC |
Modifying agency |
BAKER |
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BTCTA |
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YDXCP |
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OCLCG |
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NIALS |
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OCLCQ |
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ZCU |
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HIR |
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
Geographic area code |
n-us-ma |
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
LD7152.7.C66 |
Item number |
C66 1994 |
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
305.4/0994/092 |
Edition number |
20 |
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
B |
Edition number |
20 |
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
Classification number |
305.40994 |
Item number |
Con 1994 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Conway, Jill K., |
Dates associated with a name |
1934- |
9 (RLIN) |
17080 |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
True north : |
Remainder of title |
a memoir / |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
Jill Ker Conway. |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
1st ed. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Alfred A. Knopf, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1994. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
xiii, 250 p. ; |
Dimensions |
23 cm. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed - and beloved - bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story. |
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by a hunger to know and to understand, boarding a plane that would carry her far from her Australian homeland. As True North begins she lands, appropriately enough, in a hurricane, in New York. |
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
And is soon at Harvard, a graduate student in history experiencing both exhilaration and culture shock; discovering among friends of many backgrounds an easier sociability than she has ever known; delighting in classes that seem charged with energy, and in the perception that ideas were being taken seriously - yet still feeling like an extraterrestrial on the American planet. |
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
We see her joining with five other women to form a household that becomes an "almost magical," hilarious, and harmonious community - the community that functions as her family when she meets the Harvard professor and housemaster who will become her husband, John Conway, himself a historian, Canadian born and bred, decorated for heroism in World War II - the complex man whose mind and spirit complement her own. |
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
We see them marrying and learning to live together - during a year at Oxford, in Rome, and as they settle into the new world of Canadian university life - happy with each other, while coping, not always well, with her classically obsessive thesis writing, her as-yet-unresolved conflict with her mother, his periodic bouts of depression, and her realization that even though John's integrity, courage, and devotion to humanistic learning have become the compass point - the true north - by which she steers, there will be times when she has to navigate alone. |
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Conway, Jill K., |
Dates associated with a name |
1934- |
9 (RLIN) |
17080 |
610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Smith College |
General subdivision |
Presidents |
Form subdivision |
Biography. |
9 (RLIN) |
17081 |
856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
Public note |
View Contributor biographical information |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random057/93045302.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random057/93045302.html</a> |
856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
Public note |
View Sample text |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random044/93045302.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random044/93045302.html</a> |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
Koha item type |
Book |