Something to Declare Essays

Name: Something to Declare
Author: Julia Alvarez

Auteur: Julia Alvarez

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Julia Alvarez

Engels
Paperback
9781616205584
28 oktober 2014
300 pagina's

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Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez is the author of the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies (a national Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Yo!. She has also published two poetry collections ( Homecoming and The Other side/El Otro Lado) and a collection of essays ( Something to Declare).

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“Julia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what it means to be a Latina in the United States, bags full of literary wisdom.” —Los Angeles Times From the internationally acclaimed author of the bestselling novels In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents comes a rich and revealing work of nonfiction capturing the life and mind of an artist as she knits together the dual themes of coming to America and becoming a writer. The twenty-four confessional, evocative essays that make up Something to Declare are divided into two parts. “Customs” includes Alvarez’s memories of her family’s life in the Dominican Republic, fleeing from Trujillo’s dictatorship, and arriving in America when she was ten years old. She examines the effects of exile--surviving the shock of New York City life; yearning to fit in; training her tongue (and her mind) to speak English; and watching the Miss America pageant for clues about American-style beauty. The second half, “Declarations,” celebrates her passion for words and the writing life. She lets us watch as she struggles with her art--searching for a subject for her next novel, confronting her characters, facing her family’s anger when she invades their privacy, reflecting on the writers who influenced her, and continually honing her craft. The winner of the National Medal of Arts for her extraordinary storytelling, Julia Alvarez here offers essays that are an inspiring gift to readers and writers everywhere.“This beautiful collection of essays . . . traces a process of personal reconciliation with insight, humor, and quiet power.” —San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle “Reading Julia Alvarez’s new collection of essays is like curling up with a glass of wine in one hand and the phone in the other, listening to a bighearted, wisecracking friend share the hard-earned wisdom about family, identity, and the art of writing.” —PeopleJulia Alvarez’s new novel, Afterlife, is available now.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 28 oktober 2014
Aantal pagina's: 300
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Hoofdauteur: Julia Alvarez
Hoofduitgeverij: Algonquin Books

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Product breedte: 121 mm
Product hoogte: 25 mm
Product lengte: 197 mm
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Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm
Verpakking lengte: 197 mm
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