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Absolutely Revolting
Memoir
by Hilary McPhee •
May 1987, no. 90

The Chase by Ida Mann

Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 224 pp, $14.95 pb

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Ida Mann’s autobiography reminded me a little of the kind of speech that well-known elderly women tend to give to girls’ speech nights – full of zest, homely admonition, and assurances to the rows of upturned young faces that they’ll get out of life what they put in.

 


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The Chase by Ida Mann

Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 224 pp, $14.95 pb

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