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In the Name of Salome
by Alvarez, Julia
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1565122763
- ISBN 13
- 9781565122765
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About This Item
Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book SIGNED BY THE SUTHOR."Perhaps what is most remarkable about Julia Alvarez's In the Name of Salomé is that even in the midst of a saga of such ambitious temporal and thematic scope, the author manages to make this a bracingly intimate tale. With her trademark narrative finesse, she has fashioned a magical novel of great beauty, great ugliness, and great wisdom. As we follow Salomé and Camila through their respective lives, Alvarez's writing more generous, unflinching, and technically ambitious than ever gives us love simultaneously delightful and painful, necessary and devastating."-- Penuin Book Guide
Synopsis
"The story of my life starts with the story of my country... ." Thus begins Julia Alvarez's epic fictional account of the real-life Salomé Ureña-the "Emily Dickinson of the Dominican Republic." Born in the 1850s, in a time of intense political repression and turmoil, Salomé's fervent patriotic poems turned her-at seventeen-into a national icon. In the Name of Salomé is equally the story of Salomé's daughter, Camila, who grows up in exile, in the shadow of her mother's legend. Shy and self-effacing, Camila's life is in stark contrast to Salomé's. While her mother dedicated her brief life to educating Dominican girls to serve their struggling new nation, Camila spent her career explaining the Spanish pluperfect to upper-class American girls. But when, at age sixty-six, Camila makes a decision to leave her comfortable life behind and join Castro's revolution in Cuba, she begins a journey to make peace with her past-and bring the lives of two remarkable women full circle. Spanning more than a century, In the Name of Salomé proves Alvarez equally adept at capturing the sweep of history and the most intimate details of women's lives and hearts. It is Alvarez's richest and most inspiring novel to date.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- In the Name of Salome
- Author
- Alvarez, Julia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1565122763
- ISBN 13
- 9781565122765
- Publisher
- Algonquin
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- CONTEMPORARY FICTION
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