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De Cómo Las Muchachas García Perdieron el Acento / How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

De Cómo Las Muchachas García Perdieron el Acento / How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents( )
Author: Alvarez, Julia
ISBN:978-1-4000-9694-7
Publication Date:Oct 2007
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Vintage Espanol
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $15.95
Book Description:

Cuando las hermanas García --Carla, Sandra, Yolanda y Sofía-- y sus padres huyen de la República Dominicana buscando refugio de la persecución política, encuentran un nuevo hogar en los Estados Unidos. Pero el Nueva York de los años sesenta es marcadamente diferente de la vida privilegiada, aunque conflictiva, que han dejado atrás. Bajo la presión de asimilarse a una nueva cultura, las muchachas García se alisan el pelo, abandonan la lengua española y se...
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Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.1 x 8 x 0.7 Inches
Book Weight:0.525 Pounds
Author Biography
Alvarez, Julia (Author)
Julia Alvarez was born in New York City on March 27, 1950 and was raised in the Dominican Republic. Before becoming a full-time writer, she traveled across the country with poetry-in-the-schools programs and then taught at the high school level and the college level. In 1991, she earned tenure at Middlebury College and published her first book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, which won the PEN Oakland/Jefferson Miles Award for excellence in 1991. Her other works include In the Time of the Butterflies, The Other Side of El Otro Lado, and Once upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA.

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