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In the Name of Salome

A Novel

by Julia Alvarez

ISBN: 0452282438
ISBN-13: 9780452282438
Format: Paperback

Summary

Alvarez's fourth novel begins in the 19th century and continues into the 20th, telling in alternating chapters the story of Salomé Ureña and her daughter, Camila. Salomé, who was once the fiery poet laureate of the Dominican Republic, gave up her career to raise her family, and died young of tuberculosis. Camila, who came of age and immigrated to America during World War II, was a professor at Vassar who had to reconcile her career with the early loss of her mother and her conflicted feelings about her homeland.

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"[R]estless and vibrant....These lives, gently told, have currents within them as wide and deep as an ocean's-and no one can miss their primal force."

   -- Kirkus

"This is Alvarez's most ambitious work to date. In fact, her subject...is so rich that she can't quite do it justice....[D]espite its precious, contrived moments, the book delivers a strong sense of who these people were."    -- Suzanne Ruta

   -- New York Times Book Review

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Plume
Published date: 2001
Size: 5.25 x 7.75 inches
Weight: 0.65 pounds

Publisher's Notes

In a novel that spans more than one hundred years in Caribbean history, Camila Henrfquez Ure¦a struggles to come to terms with the legacy of her renowned mother, SalomT Ure¦a, the revered poet laureate of the Dominican Republic, who died when Camila was three. By the author of In the Time of the Butterflies. Reprint.

Other Editions

Hardcover - Workman Pub Co (2000) - from $1.00
Paperback Reissue - Penguin USA (2001) - from $1.57

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