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Book Title: Touched with Fire
Item Length: 8.4in.
Item Height: 0.9in.
Item Width: 5.5in.
Author: Kay Redfield Jamison Products
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Creative Ability, General, Psychopathology / General, Mental Health, Psychopathology / Personality Disorders, Psychopathology / Bipolar Disorder
Publisher: Free Press
Publication Year: 1996
Genre: Art, Literary Criticism, Psychology
Item Weight: 10.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
