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A Mirror Garden.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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Born in Iran (then still Persia) in 1924, Farmanfarmaian grew up in a large mercantile family whose holdings included vast pistachio orchards outside the ancient city of Qazvin. Her graceful memoir maps an intrepid trajectory: a talent for drawing took her, as a young woman, to New York, where she landed a job as a fashion illustrator for Bonwit ...

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