About this title: Xuela, a childless Dominican woman in her 70s whose own mother died while giving birth to her, tells the story of a life filled with tragedy and small triumphs: Sent at birth to live in the home of her father's washerwoman, she moves back to her father's house after seven years and must fend off the murderous rage of her jealous stepmother. The ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780099738411ISBN:0099738414
Description: Good. The pages of this book show discolouration due to age/shelf-life. Our books are dispatched from Bridgend, South Wales. Your Satisfaction Guarenteed. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780374107314ISBN:0374107319
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. inscription from owner on inside cover read more
Description: Like New. Farrar Strauss Giroux, TPB, 1996, appears to be soft cover book club printing. Clean, tight, very light wear, no markings. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780374107314ISBN:0374107319
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. name cut out of title page-otherwise vg+ or better. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good in Good jacket. 92-U. Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Very good. Light wear to edges and pages. Cover and spine show no easily noticeable damage. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Very good. Light wear to edges and pages. Cover and spine show no easily noticeable damage. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
"some quick notes--like any book, this book appeals to different readers for different reasons. unlike most books, its ability to work on so many levels remained a major impression i had while reading it. this book would be at home as text for a global studies class or a class on postcolonial theory or something, but it also reads well as, you know, literature. the writing is weirdly soothing despite the themes and mood of the book. very faulkner in that way. also traces of stein. some interpretations i've seen of this book focus on "obvious" sociopolitical content (i.e., women are not inherently mothers yet choosing not to have kids is contentious), but i think the book really deserves to be treated under the "new critics" as the meta in it--the will to self determination--is perhaps a more widely relate-able aspect. looking forward to rereading in a few years."
"About a third of the way through this riveting, beautifully written book (what a stylist!) I began to read it as an allegory--about power, ethnicity, wealth--as well as a personal account of ethnicity and this woman's road to self-invention. Ultimately, this turns out to be how all of us construct identity, and the bogus scaffolding on which we construct it and our lineage. The book is passionate and surprising."
"Picked this up at a used book store recently on a whim. Read it in a day- a quick, engaging read. Depressing though- the main character is trapped with the confines of race, class, and gender that there is no hope for her ever to escape her destiny. Jamaica's writing style is so vivid, visceral, and sensusal that I actually felt like i was on the hot Caribbean island at the beginning of the century (even though it's actually 50 degrees where i live right now)."
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