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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Paw Prints
Publication date
June 26, 2008
Binding
Prebinding
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781439507384
ISBN-10
1439507384
Dimensions
1 by 5.50 by 8 in.
Weight
0.72 lbs.
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Original list price
$24.00
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
âSimply wonderful.â âLos Angeles Times
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Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarezâs brilliant and buoyant and beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters recounting their adventures growing up in two cultures. Selected as a Notable Book by both the New York Times and the American Library Association, it won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for books with a multicultural perspective and was chosen by New York librarians as one of twenty-one classics for the twenty-first century. Ms. Alvarez was recently honored with the 2013 National Medal of Arts for her extraordinary storytelling.Â
In this debut novel, the GarcÃa sistersâCarla, Sandra, Yolanda, and SofÃaâand their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their fatherâs role in an attempt to overthrow a tyrannical dictator is discovered. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wild and wondrous and not always welcoming U.S.A., their parents try to hold on to their old ways, but the girls try find new lives: by forgetting their Spanish, by straightening their hair and wearing fringed bell bottoms. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. How the GarcÃa Girls Lost Their Accents sets the sisters free to tell their most intimate stories about how they came to be at homeâand not at homeâin America.
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âA joy to read.â âThe Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarezâs brilliant and buoyant and beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters recounting their adventures growing up in two cultures. Selected as a Notable Book by both the New York Times and the American Library Association, it won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for books with a multicultural perspective and was chosen by New York librarians as one of twenty-one classics for the twenty-first century. Ms. Alvarez was recently honored with the 2013 National Medal of Arts for her extraordinary storytelling.Â
In this debut novel, the GarcÃa sistersâCarla, Sandra, Yolanda, and SofÃaâand their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their fatherâs role in an attempt to overthrow a tyrannical dictator is discovered. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wild and wondrous and not always welcoming U.S.A., their parents try to hold on to their old ways, but the girls try find new lives: by forgetting their Spanish, by straightening their hair and wearing fringed bell bottoms. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. How the GarcÃa Girls Lost Their Accents sets the sisters free to tell their most intimate stories about how they came to be at homeâand not at homeâin America.
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âA joy to read.â âThe Cleveland Plain Dealer
Editions
Hardcover
from Algonquin Books (January 4, 1991)
9780945575573 | details & prices | 5.00 × 7.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $18.95
About: Forced to flee their native Caribbean island after an attempted coup, the Garcias--Carlos, Laura, and their four daughters--must learn a new way of life in the Bronx, while trying to cling to the old ways that they loved
About: Forced to flee their native Caribbean island after an attempted coup, the Garcias--Carlos, Laura, and their four daughters--must learn a new way of life in the Bronx, while trying to cling to the old ways that they loved
Paperback
Reprint edition from Algonquin Books (January 12, 2010)
9781565129757 | details & prices | 311 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $14.95
from Plume (September 6, 2005)
9780452287075 | details & prices | 286 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $15.95
About: Forced to flee their native Caribbean island after an attempted coup, the Garcias--Carlos, Laura, and their four daughters--must learn a new way of life in the Bronx, while trying to cling to the old ways that they loved.
About: Forced to flee their native Caribbean island after an attempted coup, the Garcias--Carlos, Laura, and their four daughters--must learn a new way of life in the Bronx, while trying to cling to the old ways that they loved.
Reprint edition from Plume (June 1, 1992)
9780452268067 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $15.00
About: Eagerly embracing their new American culture in Miami, the four Garcia women iron their hair, smoke cigarettes, date American men, forget their Spanish, and lose their accents, all in their journey toward adulthood
About: Eagerly embracing their new American culture in Miami, the four Garcia women iron their hair, smoke cigarettes, date American men, forget their Spanish, and lose their accents, all in their journey toward adulthood
Reinforced
from Demco Media (December 1, 1992)
9780606252706 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $23.50
About: Eagerly embracing their new American culture in Miami, the four Garcia women iron their hair, smoke cigarettes, date American men, forget their Spanish, and lose their accents, all in their journey toward adulthood
About: Eagerly embracing their new American culture in Miami, the four Garcia women iron their hair, smoke cigarettes, date American men, forget their Spanish, and lose their accents, all in their journey toward adulthood
Prebinding
Reprint edition from Turtleback Books (January 12, 2010)
9780606234702 | details & prices | 307 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.92 lbs | List price $26.90
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Paw Prints (June 26, 2008)
9781439507384 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.72 lbs | List price $24.00
About: âSimply wonderful.
About: âSimply wonderful.
from Turtleback Books (October 1, 2005)
9781417753994 | details & prices | 286 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.98 lbs | List price $28.10
About: Forced to flee their native Caribbean island after an attempted coup, the Garcias--Carlos, Laura, and their four daughters--must learn a new way of life in the Bronx, while trying to cling to the old ways that they loved.
About: Forced to flee their native Caribbean island after an attempted coup, the Garcias--Carlos, Laura, and their four daughters--must learn a new way of life in the Bronx, while trying to cling to the old ways that they loved.
from Turtleback Books (October 1, 1999)
9780613032117 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $26.95
About: Eagerly embracing their new American culture in Miami, the four Garcia women iron their hair, smoke cigarettes, date American men, forget their Spanish, and lose their accents, all in their journey toward adulthood
About: Eagerly embracing their new American culture in Miami, the four Garcia women iron their hair, smoke cigarettes, date American men, forget their Spanish, and lose their accents, all in their journey toward adulthood
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