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In the name of Salomé : a novel / Julia Alvarez.
LIBRA - Special PS3551.L845 I45 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alvarez, Julia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ureña de Henríquez, Salomé, 1850-1897--Fiction.
- Ureña de Henríquez, Salomé.
- Henríquez Ureña, Camila--Fiction.
- Henríquez Ureña, Camila.
- Ureña de Henríquez, Salomé, 1850-1897.
- Dominican Americans--Fiction.
- Dominican Americans.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Dominican Republic.
- Women poets--Fiction.
- Women poets.
- Dominican Republic--Fiction.
- Cuba--Fiction.
- Cuba.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 357 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Plume, [2001]
- Summary:
- When 66-year-old Camila decides to leave her comfortable life behind and join Castro's revolution in Cuba, she begins to make peace with her past and can at last relate to her mother, Salom Urea, the "Emily Dickinson of the Dominican Republic". Now in paperback comes this bestselling work of historical fiction by the acclaimed author of "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" and "In the Time of the Butterflies".
- Notes:
- Originally published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000.
- ISBN:
- 0452282438
- 9780452282438
- OCLC:
- 762196081
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