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SOMETHING TO DECLARE.
by Alvarez, Julia
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a like dustjacket./like
- ISBN 10
- 1565121937
- ISBN 13
- 9781565121935
- Seller
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About This Item
Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin Books,, 1998.. SIGNED first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Twenty-four essays on her life as a 'hyphenated American' (In 1960, when Alvarez was 10 years old, her father, after a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, escaped to a 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.), and on how this has influenced her writing. Includes the "Ten Commandments on Writing" - wisdom she has collected from other masters. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46158
- Title
- SOMETHING TO DECLARE.
- Author
- Alvarez, Julia
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1565121937
- ISBN 13
- 9781565121935
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books,
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill, NC:
- Date Published
- 1998.
- Keywords
- writing, domincan republic, essays,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Latin American Lit and History;
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