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- ↑ "Film Review: Martha, Ruth and Edie". The Globe and Mail , August 8, 1988.
- Arp, Thomas R., and Greg Johnson. Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. USA: The Thomson Corporation, 2006.
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