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Title Statement | The cemetery of untold stories: a novel / [text (large print)] : Julia Alvarez. |
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Series | Thorndike Press large print top shelf |
Author | Alvarez, Julia |
Publication | Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company,2024. |
Edition | Large print edition. |
Extent of Item | 385 pages (large print) ; |
ISBN | 9798885798648 (library binding) |
Other Number | pr07646961 |
General Notes | Originally published in standard print: Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024. |
Summary | "When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories-literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sancctuary for their true narratives."-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Cemeteries--Fiction |
Characters and characteristics in literature--Fiction | |
Fictitious characters--Fiction--Death | |
Magic--Fiction | |
Manuscripts--Fiction | |
Storytelling--Fiction | |
Women authors--Fiction | |
By Location | Dominican Republic--Fiction |
By Genre | Large print books |
Magic realist fiction | |
Novels |