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Reading Julia Alvarez (Hardcover, New)
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Reading Julia Alvarez (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Pop Lit Book Club
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This comprehensive overview of Julia Alvarez's fiction, nonfiction,
and poetry offers biographical information and parses the author's
important works and the intentions behind them. Reading Julia
Alvarez reviews the author's acclaimed body of writing, exploring
both the works and the woman behind them. The guide opens with a
brief biography that includes the saga of the Alvarez family's
flight from the Dominican Republic when Julia was ten, and carries
her story through the philanthropic organic coffee farm that she
and her husband now operate in that nation. The heart of the book
is a broad overview of Alvarez's literary achievements, followed by
chapters that discuss individual works and a chapter on her poetry.
The book also looks at how the author's writings grapple with and
illuminate contemporary issues, and at Alvarez's place in pop
culture, including an examination of film adaptations of her books.
Through this guide, readers will better understand the relevance of
Alvarez's works to their own lives and to new ways of thinking
about current events. Chapters on individual works to help the user
understand the author's plots, themes, settings, characters, and
style Discussion questions in each chapter to foster student
research and facilitate book-club discussion Sidebars of
interesting information An up-to-date guide to Internet and print
resources for further study
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