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"In March 1953, four women meet in Room 408 of Moscow's deluxe Metropole Hotel. They have gathered, not altogether willingly, to reminisce about Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet who in death had become a national idol of Soviet Russia. In life, however, he was a much more complicated figure. Each of these ladies loved Mayakovsky in the course of his life, and as they piece together their memories of him, a portrait of the artist emerges. From his early...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"'The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho,' so begins this intrepid... novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes; and in 1923, Virginia Woolf writes:...
6) Gabriela Mistral, p?blica y secreta: truenos y silencios en la vida del primer Nobel latinoamericano
Author
Publisher
Editorial Sudamericana
Pub. Date
2003, c1996
Edition
3. ed., corregida y actualizada.
Physical Desc
377 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Español
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 53 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A latest collection by the U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author is comprised of whimsical, prose-style dramas that explore the receding vista of life while posing eloquent, riddle-like conundrums about the human condition.
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