Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
In her first book of nonfiction, Julia Alvarez offers two dozen personal essays about the two major (and interlocking) issues of her life - growing up with one foot in each of two cultures, and writing.
In 1960, when Alvarez was ten years old, her father's participation in a failed coup attempt against Rafael Trujillo, the repressive dictator of the Dominican Republic, resulted in the family's self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation. That uprooting formed the thematic basis for two of Julia Alvarez's novels.
Her father's revolutionary ties inspired the third, the story of one of Trujillo's most infamous atrocities. Something to Declare is about the influences those experiences have had on her work, and about the practical lessons she's learned on her way to becoming the internationally acclaimed writer she now is.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Previews available in: English
Subjects
20th century, Authorship, Dominican Americans, Dominican Americans in literature, History, In literature, Intellectual life, United States, Women and literature, Essays, Dominicans (dominican republic), united states, American literature, hispanic american authors, Essays (single author), American literature (collections), 20th centuryPeople
Julia AlvarezPlaces
Dominican Republic, United StatesTimes
20th centuryEdition | Availability |
---|---|
1 |
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
Something to declare
1998, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
in English
- 1st ed.
1565121937 9781565121935
|
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
Orignially published: Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998.
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created September 12, 2008
- 11 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
November 15, 2023 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
December 28, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
December 17, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
December 4, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
September 12, 2008 | Created by ImportBot | Imported from Oregon Libraries MARC record |