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Something fierce : memoirs of a revolutionary daughter / Carmen Aguirre.
LIBRA F3101.A38 A3 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aguirre, Carmen, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women revolutionaries--Chile--Biography.
- Women revolutionaries.
- Aguirre, Carmen, 1967-.
- Aguirre, Carmen.
- Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (Chile).
- Chile--History--1973-1988.
- Chile.
- South America--History--20th century.
- South America.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 287 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Vintage Canada edition, 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2014.
- Summary:
- "Six-year-old Carmen Aguirre fled to Canada with her family following General Augusto Pinochet's violent 1973 coup in Chile. Five years later, when her mother and stepfather returned to South America as Chilean resistance members, Carmen and her sister went with them, quickly assuming double lives of their own. At 18, Carmen became a militant herself, plunging further into a world of terror, paranoia and euphoria. Something Fierce takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictator-ruled Bolivia, post-Malvinas Argentina and Pinochet's Chile in the eventful decade between 1979 and 1989. Dramatic, suspenseful and darkly comic, it is a rare first-hand account of revolutionary life and a passionate argument against forgetting." -- Amazon.com viewed August 3, 2020.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011.
- Other Format:
- Aguirre, Carmen, 1967-, author. Something fierce.:
- ISBN:
- 9780345813824
- 0345813820
- OCLC:
- 841710327
- Publisher Number:
- 90101069743
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