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Title Statement | Faces in the crowd / Valeria Luiselli ; translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney. |
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Author | Luiselli, Valeria, 1983- |
Additional Contributors | MacSweeney, Christina |
Extent of Item | 146 pages ; |
ISBN | 1566893542 (pbk.) 9781566893541 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 2527532 |
General Notes | Translation of: Los ingrávidos. |
Summary | A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet living in a run-down apartment in Philadelphia in the 1950s. While she tells the story of her past as a young editor in New York City desperately trying to convince a publisher to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen-an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence constantly haunts her in the subway-she also relates the slow but inevitable disintegration of her present family life. |
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By Topic | Women authors--Fiction |
By Location | New York (N.Y.)--Fiction |
Mexico City (Mexico)--Fiction |