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The cemetery of untold stories [LP] a novel

"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns iut into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried but failed to bring to life and who s...

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Main Author: Alvarez, Julia (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024.
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print top shelf.
Subjects:
Women novelists > Fiction.
Characters and characteristics in literature > Fiction.
Cemeteries > Fiction.
Storytelling > Fiction.
Dominican Republic > Fiction.
Large print books.
Magic realist fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Historical fiction.
Summary: "When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns iut into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried but failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a nysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--Provided by publisher
Physical Description: 385 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9798885798648
Author Notes: Julia Alvarez was born in New York City on March 27, 1950 and was raised in the Dominican Republic. Before becoming a full-time writer, she traveled across the country with poetry-in-the-schools programs and then taught at the high school level and the college level. In 1991, she earned tenure at Middlebury College and published her first book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, which won the PEN Oakland/Jefferson Miles Award for excellence in 1991. Her other works include In the Time of the Butterflies, The Other Side of El Otro Lado, and Once upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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