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PublisherScribner

ISBN-100684873591

ISBN-139780684873596

eBay Product ID (ePID)26260

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Original LanguageSpanish

Book TitleStories of Eva Luna

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1999

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), General

GenreFiction

AuthorIsabel Allende

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight20.6 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-267641

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal863/.64

Table Of ContentLetter from the EditorValerie SteeleClothing the Living and the Dead: Memory, Social Identity and Aristocratic Habit in the Early Modern Habsburg EmpireBeatrix BastlRestyling Colonial Cambodia (1860-1954): French Dressing, Indigenous Custom and National CostumePenny EdwardsThe Anthropological Study of Body Decoration as Art: Collective Representations and the Somatization of AffectRagnar JohnsonFashion Research and Its DiscontentsEfrat TseelonReconstructing Italian Fashion: America and the Development of the Italian Fashion Industry by Nicola WhiteEugenia PaulicelliCool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude by Dick Pountain and David RobinsAndrew HillStylin: African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginnings by Shane White and Graham WhiteNell Irvin PainterExhibition ReviewFashion Lives. The Goldstein: A Museum of Design, University of MinnesotaCathy TaylorCall for Papers: Uniforms for Civilans: On the History of Uniforms as Symbolic Communication

SynopsisIsabel Allende now ranks as one of the world's most beloved authors. In 1988, she introduced the world to Eva Luna, in a novel of the same name that recounted the adventurous life of a poor young Latin American woman who finds friendship, love, and some measure of worldly success through her powers as a storyteller. Her most ambitious novel up to that time, Eva Luna was described by the Washington Post as "a cascade of stories [that] tumbles out before the reader, stories vivid, passionate and human." Returning to this tale by popular demand, Allende unveiled The Stories of Eva Luna in 1991. A treasure trove of brilliantly crafted tales, the book showed us once again why Eva Luna and her much-celebrated creator have won such a large and devoted readership.We begin with Rolf Carlé, the European refugee, journalist, and lover who figured so largely in Eva Luna. Lying in bed with Eva Luna, he asks her to tell him a story. "What about?" she asks. "Tell me a story you have never told anyone before. Make it up for me." And so she does, giving Rolf Carlé and the reader twenty-three vibrant, enchanting demonstrations of her artistry. Here are compesinos and rich people, guerrillas and fortune-tellers, great beauties and tyrants, the foreign rendered indelibly familiar. Here is Clarisa, "born before the city had electricity, she lived to see television coverage of the first astronaut levitating on the moon, and she died of amazement when the Pope came for a visit and was met in the street by homosexuals dressed up as nuns"; here is El Capitán, who waited for forty years before proposing to his dancing partner; Horacio Fortunato, a circus owner and entrepreneur, whose encounter with a languid foreign woman will force him to change his roguish ways even as he attempts to court her; Maurizia Rugieri, who abandons her husband and child for a young medical student, converting their life together into an opera of her own design; Nicholas Vidal, who "had always known that a woman would cost him his life" but never suspected that it would be the wife of Judge Hidalgo; Raid Halbi, once again displaying his concern and wisdom for the people of Agua Santa; Marcia Liberman, the wife of a European diplomat, whose brief affair with the President for Life of an unnamed Latin American country has startling rewards...Love, vengeance, nostalgia, compassion, irony -- Isabel Allende leaves no emotion untouched in these stories. Opulently imagined, stirringly told, they confirm her place as one of the world's leading writers.

LC Classification NumberPQ8098.1.L54C8413