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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents de Julia Alvarez

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Autor Julia Alvarez
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2009 – vârsta de la 14 până la 18 ani
It's a long way from Santo Domingo to the Bronx, but if anyone can go the distance, it's the Garcia girls. Four lively Latinas plunge from a pampered life of privilege on an island compound into the big-city chaos of New York, where they embrace all that America has to offer.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781565129757
ISBN-10: 156512975X
Pagini: 311
Dimensiuni: 154 x 208 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: ALGONQUIN BOOKS OF CHAPEL HILL

Descriere

It's a long way from Santo Domingo to the Bronx, but if anyone can go the distance, it's the Garcia girls. Four lively Latinas plunge from a pampered life of privilege on an island compound into the big-city chaos of New York, where they embrace all that America has to offer.

Notă biografică

Alvarez, Julia: - Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. A novelist, poet, and essayist, she is the author of nineteen books, including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies a National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Selection Yo!, Something to Declare, In the Name of Salome, Saving theWorld, A Wedding in Haiti, and The Woman I Kept to Myself. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including the 2013 National Medal of Arts, a Latina Leader Award in Literature in 2007 from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the 2002 Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the 2000 Woman of the Year by Latina magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library s 1996 program The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez. A writer-in-residence at Middlebury College, Alvarez and her husband, Bill Eichner, established Alta Gracia, an organic coffee farm literacy arts center, in her homeland, the Dominican Republic.

Caracteristici

Alvarez's second novel, In The Times of the Butterflies, was nominated for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award

Recenzii

'Simply wonderful writing, and there's a good deal of it in this debut novel by a lively and gifted author'
'Compelling ... a classic tale of immigration ... warm and honest'
'She has beautifully captured the threshold experience of the new immigrant'
'In telling this story, Alvarez treats the subjects of immigration, exile, Hispanic culture and the American Dream with a sensitive and often irreverent touch'