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Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation...
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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In...
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A beautiful story of a group of American and English expatriates in Paris on an excursion to Pamplona. This features the Left Bank of Paris in the 1920s and brutally realistic descriptions of bullfighting in Spain. It is the story of flamboyant Lady Brett Ashely and the hapless Jake Barnes in an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love and vanishing illusions.
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Español
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La casa en Mango Street es la extraordinaria historia de Esperanza Cordero. Contado a través de una serie de viñetas --a veces desgarradoras, a veces profundamente alegres-- es el relato de una niña latina que crece en un barrio de Chicago, inventando por sí misma en qué y en quién se convertirá. Pocos libros de nuestra era han conmovido a tantos lectores.
The House on Mango Street tells the extraordinary story of Esperanza Cordero. Told through...
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Ediciones de Iberoamericana volume 91
Publisher
Iberoamericana
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
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Series
Critical animal studies volume Volume 4
Publisher
Brill Rodopi
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Author
Series
Theory and history of literature volume 32
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English