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Film, Video Sara Paretsky on Critical Mass

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Transcript: TEXT

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Title

  • Sara Paretsky on Critical Mass

Summary

  • Best-selling author Sara Paretsky discussed "Critical Mass," her 16th V.I. Warshawski novel, which features Warshawski's best friend, Vienna-born doctor Lotty Herschel. Paretsky's skills in developing compelling characters and plots are demonstrated once again in this novel, as she weaves together Lotty's childhood in Vienna, missing persons, meth labs, Chicago history and the race for the atomic bomb during World War II.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Researcher and Reference Services Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2013-11-15.

Headings

  • -  Literature

Notes

  • -  Classification: General Works.
  • -  Sara Paretsky.
  • -  Recorded on 2013-11-15.
  • -  Publishers.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689266

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Researcher And Reference Services Division. Sara Paretsky on Critical Mass. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-15, 2013. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021689266/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Researcher And Reference Services Division, S. B. (2013) Sara Paretsky on Critical Mass. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-15. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021689266/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Researcher And Reference Services Division. Sara Paretsky on Critical Mass. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-15, 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021689266/>.