An edition of The house on the lagoon (1995)

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An edition of The house on the lagoon (1995)

The house on the lagoon

1st ed.
  • 5 Want to read

The House on the Lagoon is the story of Quintin Mendizabal and his wife, Isabel Monfort. Isabel, a fledgling novelist, is writing a multigenerational novel about the history of their families, of Spanish and Corsican origins, and their arrival in Puerto Rico. Her ambition is great, but her sense of history comically weak. When Quintin, who happens to be a historian, finds her manuscript, he begins to write alternate chapters expressing his own point of view.

Isabel colorfully weaves a tapestry of life among the ruling classes of Puerto Rico, with their passionate debates about independence, statehood, racism; their links to Spain and Europe; and their ambivalence toward the United States. But as she draws a self-portrait of her marriage as well, it becomes clear that her relationship with her husband is far from picture-perfect. Quintin becomes incensed at Isabel's version of events, at her audacity in writing a book, and an autobiographical one at that.

And Isabel, in her struggle to forge a new identity and free herself from her coercive marriage and the constraints of the culture, precipitates a conflagration that threatens to consume the entire family.

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Language
English
Pages
407

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Edition Availability
Cover of: La casa de la laguna
La casa de la laguna
2003, Thorndike Press
in Spanish
Cover of: La casa de la laguna
La casa de la laguna
1997, Vintage Books
in Spanish - 1. ed. de Vintage español
Cover of: La casa de la laguna
La casa de la laguna
1996, Emecé Editores
in Spanish - 1a. ed.
Cover of: The house on the lagoon
The house on the lagoon
1996, Plume
in English
Cover of: The house on the lagoon
The house on the lagoon
1996, Abacus
in English
Cover of: The house on the lagoon
The house on the lagoon
1995, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3556.E7256 H68 1995, PS3556.E7256H68 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
407 p. :
Number of pages
407

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1110720M
Internet Archive
houseonlagoon00ferrrich
ISBN 10
0374173117
LCCN
94036495
OCLC/WorldCat
31331359
Library Thing
240238
Goodreads
1770529

Work Description

"Narrates lives of several generations of a wealthy island family and how their social world contrasts with that of less-privileged Puerto Ricans, including those who are black or racially mixed. Female characterizations are always important in Ferré's narratives as women face lingering patriarchal values and search for their own survival strategies. The house near the lagoon serves as the main stage where some of the conflicts and contradictions of Puerto Rican society are carried out or revealed"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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