Rosario Ferre, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $23 (262p) ISBN 978-0-374-15648-0
Love and betrayal, political upheaval, the sacrifices required by dedication to art, and class differences are some of the themes that Ferré (The House on the Lagoon) engages in this imaginatively conceived but strangely lackluster story of a...
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Rosario Ferre, Author Ballantine Books $5.95 (197p) ISBN 978-0-345-34778-7
The history of one contentious family is the basis of the short novel and three stories in this volume spanning a century of national transformation and political and economic upheaval in Puerto Rico. Ferre, a native of that country, begins with an...
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Rosario Ferre, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $24 (340p) ISBN 978-0-374-14638-2
With humor, nostalgia and fateful irony, Puerto Rican novelist Ferre (The House on the Lagoon was an NBA finalist) breathes life into the story of two prominent Puerto Rican families living in the first half of the century during the sugarcane...
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Rosario Ferre, Author Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara, S.A. de C. $16.95 (222p) ISBN 978-968-19-0579-8
The daughter of the former governor of Puerto Rico, Ferre has become one of that island's leading literary figures, producing two novels, La casa de la laguna (The House on the Lagoon, Vintage, 1997, a National Book Award finalist) and...
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