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Rose Owens

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in Greenbrae, California, The United States

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Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Humor

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David Bowie, William Faulkner, Maira Kalman

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Rose Owens comes from a background of enthusiastic individuals, who absolutely frolic throughout their every day lives, sampling and engaging in absolutely everything. She is attempting to follow in their gracious footsteps, and hopes that by the end of her life, she will have read “Remembrance of Things Past” and sampled the cheeses of the world. She lives in San Francisco.

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Ariel

by Sylvia Plath

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The L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia / The Big Nowhere / L.A. Confidential / White Jazz

by James Ellroy

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The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

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