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The Ladies' Gallery: A Memoir of Family Secrets
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Product Description: A shred of black lace. A broken hand mirror. A spidery strip of false eyelash. These are the fragments left to Irene Vilar, granddaughter of Lolita Lebrón, the revered political activist for Puerto Rican independence who in 1954 sprayed the U...read more
By Gregory Rabassa (trans) and Irene Vilar
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9781590513231, titled "The Ladies' Gallery: A Memoir of Family Secrets" | Other Pr Llc, October 6, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A shred of black lace.
9780679745464, titled "The Ladies' Gallery: A Memoir of Family Secrets" | Vintage Books, January 1, 1998, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The author meditates on the allure of suicide for three generations of women in one Puerto Rican family, describing the lives of her grandmother and mother, and herself

A Message from God in the Atomic Age: A Memoir
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The author meditates on the allure of suicide for three generations of women in one Puerto Rican family, describing the lives of her grandmother and mother, her own suicide attempt, and the secrets that linked the three women
By Gregory Rabassa (trans) and Irene Vilar
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9780679422815 | Pantheon Books, July 1, 1996, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The author meditates on the allure of suicide for three generations of women in one Puerto Rican family, describing the lives of her grandmother and mother, her own suicide attempt, and the secrets that linked the three women

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9781862071131 | New edition (Granta Books, November 1, 1998), cover price $13.15
9781862070141 | Granta Books, May 19, 1997, cover price $16.45

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