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A fish in the water : a memoir / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Helen Lane.
LIBRA Special PQ8498.32.A65 Z46 1994b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-2025.
- Standardized Title:
- Pez en el agua. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-2025.
- Vargas Llosa, Mario.
- Peru--Politics and government--1980-.
- Peru.
- Politics and government.
- Authors, Peruvian--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, Peruvian.
- Politicians--Peru--Biography.
- Politicians.
- Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 532 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Uncorrected proof.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994.
- Summary:
- A memoir by the celebrated Latin American writer, spanning his birth in Peru, career as a writer, and efforts at organizing political and social reform in his native country, which ultimately led him to seek the presidency in 1990.
- Contents:
- The man who was my Papa
- The Plaza San Martín
- Lima the horrible
- The Democratic Front
- The cadet
- Religion, municipal elections, and backsides
- Journalism and Bohemia
- The freedom movement
- Uncle Lucho
- Public life
- Comrade Alberto
- Schemers and dragons
- The fierce little Sartrean
- Cut-rate intellectuals
- Aunt Julia
- The great change
- The miter-bird
- The dirty war
- The trip to Paris
- Period.
- OCLC:
- 936070057
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