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Interviews | November 3, 2009

Sheila A.: IMG On Storytelling: The Powells.com Interview with Donald Miller

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donaldmillerDonald Miller is a Christian writer, but the question that Miller asks with his latest memoir, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, is applicable to... Continue »
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    A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

    Donald Miller

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Plume Contemporary Fiction)

by Julia Alvarez

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Plume Contemporary Fiction) Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

It's a long way from Santo Domingo to the Bronx, but if anyone can go the distance, it's the Garcia girls. Four lively Latinas plunge from a pampered life of privilege on an island compound into the big-city chaos of New York, where they embrace all that America has to offer.

Review:

"This is an account of parallel odysseys, as each of the four daughters adapts in her own way, and a large part of Alvarez's Garcia's accomplishment is the complexity with which these vivid characters are rendered." Publishers Weekly

Review:

"Alvarez is a gifted, evocative storyteller of promise." Library Journal
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About the Author

Alvarez is a poet and fiction writer. She teaches creative writing and literature at Middlebury College.
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Effie, April 15, 2007 (view all comments by Effie)
The book is written in Alvarez' inimitable trademark style--very funny but with very serious overtones--like life itself.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780452268067
Author:
Alvarez, Julia
Publisher:
Plume Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
Short stories
Subject:
Sisters
Subject:
Garcia family (fictitious characters)
Subject:
Dominican Americans
Subject:
Dominican Americans -- Fiction.
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Sisters -- United States.
Copyright:
1992
Series:
Plume contemporary fiction
Series Volume:
no. 88-15
Publication Date:
June 1992
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
290
Dimensions:
8.00x5.30x.65 in. .57 lbs.
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