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Making Toast

A Family Story

by Roger Rosenblatt

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Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
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    Mar 2010, 176 pages

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    Feb 2011, 128 pages

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Roger Rosenblatt
Roger Rosenblatt (born in 1940), is a journalist, author, playwright, and teacher. His contributions to Time and PBS have won two George Polk Awards, a Peabody Award, and an Emmy Award. He is the author of five Off-Broadway plays and twelve books, including the national bestseller Rules for Aging and Children of War, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Lapham Rising, also a national bestseller, was his first novel.

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