Author: Zoé Valdés
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559704779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"I Gave You All I Had introduces Cuca Martinez - a.k.a. Cuquita, Cuchita, the Girl - the youngest child in a brood of five, born in prerevolutionary Cuba to a flighty would-be actress and a Chinese enthusiast of New World riches upon whom fortune has consistently failed to smile. At sixteen, she heads for Havana in search of work."--BOOK JACKET. "There, a pair of strumpets named La Mechanga and La Puchanga introduce her to the sweet mischief of nighttime Havana, in which she meets Juan, the love of her life - only to see him disappear for eight years. When Juan resurfaces on the eve of the Revolution, Cuca believes her dreams are finally to be realized, but the political climate and Juan's shady dealings force him into hasty exile in America."--BOOK JACKET. "And so Cuca, like Cuba itself, waits. She waits for the promised dreams - of happiness, of plenty, of joy, of love - to arrive, and watches her country slide into a barren, repressive slumber. And while she waits, Cuca and her friends struggle, in the midst of those shattered dreams, to survive: they improvise, they scavenge, they make love, they remember, and above all, they talk."--BOOK JACKET.
I Gave You All I Had
Author: Zoé Valdés
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559704779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"I Gave You All I Had introduces Cuca Martinez - a.k.a. Cuquita, Cuchita, the Girl - the youngest child in a brood of five, born in prerevolutionary Cuba to a flighty would-be actress and a Chinese enthusiast of New World riches upon whom fortune has consistently failed to smile. At sixteen, she heads for Havana in search of work."--BOOK JACKET. "There, a pair of strumpets named La Mechanga and La Puchanga introduce her to the sweet mischief of nighttime Havana, in which she meets Juan, the love of her life - only to see him disappear for eight years. When Juan resurfaces on the eve of the Revolution, Cuca believes her dreams are finally to be realized, but the political climate and Juan's shady dealings force him into hasty exile in America."--BOOK JACKET. "And so Cuca, like Cuba itself, waits. She waits for the promised dreams - of happiness, of plenty, of joy, of love - to arrive, and watches her country slide into a barren, repressive slumber. And while she waits, Cuca and her friends struggle, in the midst of those shattered dreams, to survive: they improvise, they scavenge, they make love, they remember, and above all, they talk."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559704779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"I Gave You All I Had introduces Cuca Martinez - a.k.a. Cuquita, Cuchita, the Girl - the youngest child in a brood of five, born in prerevolutionary Cuba to a flighty would-be actress and a Chinese enthusiast of New World riches upon whom fortune has consistently failed to smile. At sixteen, she heads for Havana in search of work."--BOOK JACKET. "There, a pair of strumpets named La Mechanga and La Puchanga introduce her to the sweet mischief of nighttime Havana, in which she meets Juan, the love of her life - only to see him disappear for eight years. When Juan resurfaces on the eve of the Revolution, Cuca believes her dreams are finally to be realized, but the political climate and Juan's shady dealings force him into hasty exile in America."--BOOK JACKET. "And so Cuca, like Cuba itself, waits. She waits for the promised dreams - of happiness, of plenty, of joy, of love - to arrive, and watches her country slide into a barren, repressive slumber. And while she waits, Cuca and her friends struggle, in the midst of those shattered dreams, to survive: they improvise, they scavenge, they make love, they remember, and above all, they talk."--BOOK JACKET.
I Gave You All I Had
Author: Zoé Valdés
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559705417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An audacious, exuberant novel that follows Cuca Martinez from childhood to motherhood in Cuba, where she fights to survive & be happy in a world on which fortune has consistently failed to smile.
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559705417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An audacious, exuberant novel that follows Cuca Martinez from childhood to motherhood in Cuba, where she fights to survive & be happy in a world on which fortune has consistently failed to smile.
The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
A harlot's progress. Esther happy. What love costs an old man. The end of evil ways. Vautrin's last avatar
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Guilderoy
Author: Ouida
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Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Languages : en
Pages : 410
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The Bulletin of the Commercial Law League of America
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Category : Commercial law
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
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Category : Commercial law
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
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Scribner's Monthly
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
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Languages : en
Pages : 1078
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Hernarne
Author: William B. Felts
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Beyond These Voices
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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ISBN:
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Our corner, ed. by A. Besant
Author: Annie Besant
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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ISBN:
Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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