Something to declare
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York Penguin 1999Edition: 1. Plume printDescription: XIV, 300 SContent type: Text Media type: ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen Carrier type: BandISBN: 1565121937; 0452280672Subject(s): Alvarez, Julia -- Authorship | Geschichte 1900-2000 | Geschichte | Dominican Americans in literature | Dominican Americans -- Intellectual life | Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century | USA | Dominican Republic -- In literatureDDC classification: 814.54 LOC classification: PS3551.L845Other classification: IQ 11195 Abstract: In her first book of nonfiction, Julia Alvarez offers two dozen personal essays about the two major (and interlocking) issues of her life - growing up with one foot in each of two cultures, and writingSummary: In 1960, when Alvarez was ten years old, her father's participation in a failed coup attempt against Rafael Trujillo, the repressive dictator of the Dominican Republic, resulted in the family's self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation. That uprooting formed the thematic basis for two of Julia Alvarez's novelsSummary: Her father's revolutionary ties inspired the third, the story of one of Trujillo's most infamous atrocities. Something to Declare is about the influences those experiences have had on her work, and about the practical lessons she's learned on her way to becoming the internationally acclaimed writer she now is
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Books | Main Library Non-Fiction - General Stacks | 814.54 .A483 1999 | Available | 26527 |
In her first book of nonfiction, Julia Alvarez offers two dozen personal essays about the two major (and interlocking) issues of her life - growing up with one foot in each of two cultures, and writing
In 1960, when Alvarez was ten years old, her father's participation in a failed coup attempt against Rafael Trujillo, the repressive dictator of the Dominican Republic, resulted in the family's self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation. That uprooting formed the thematic basis for two of Julia Alvarez's novels
Her father's revolutionary ties inspired the third, the story of one of Trujillo's most infamous atrocities. Something to Declare is about the influences those experiences have had on her work, and about the practical lessons she's learned on her way to becoming the internationally acclaimed writer she now is