Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition - Novel Book
Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition
Author: John Rodden,Isabel Allende,Isabel AllendePublisher: University of Texas PressCategory: Biography: General, Literary Studies: General, Literary Studies: From C 1900 -, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose WritersBook Format: PaperbackFrom reviews of the first edition: . . . Allende has led a life full of drama, passion, and history— one that is a novela in its own right. Now a book, Conversations with Isabel Allende, gives fans the inside story as told by Allende herself. . . . This is worthwhile reading for anyone who wants to know what makes a good writer tick. — Latina
Notoriously cavalier about the lines between fact, memory, and the storyteller's urge to keep the listener going, Allende embellishes or withholds wherever she pleases. Serious subjects are discussed and dealt with seriously, but there is plenty of laughter and evidence of the woman's appealing optimism and sense of play, whimsy, and charm. — Bloomsbury Review
[This] is a rich, entertaining, and informative look at the life-in-progress and work of an extraordinary woman. — Virginia Quarterly Review
[Readers] will find themselves enthralled with the fascinating story of a politically committed and dedicated writer, mother, and wife. — School Library Journal
Her fans will love the Isabel who comes across so well spoken here. — Booklist
This revised edition has been updated to cover Allende's three newest books— City of the Beasts, Portrait in Sepia: A Novel, and Daughter of Fortune. It includes four new interviews in which Allende discusses completing her trilogy of novels that began with House of the Spirits, as well as her ongoing spiritual adventure and political interests.
Table Of Contents
Acknowledgments Foreword to the First Edition by Isabel Allende Chronology of Isabel Allende's Life and Works Introduction Note on the Selections 1. Pirate, Conjurer, Feminist (Marjorie Agosin) 2. Chile's Troubadour (Magdalena Garcia Pinto) 3. Isabel Allende Unveiled (Douglas Foster) 4. Beginnings (Ilan Stavans) 5. "The Responsibility to Tell You" (John Rodden) 6. An Overwhelming Passion to Tell the Story (Elyse Crystall, Jill Kuhnheim, and Mary Layoun) 7. Love and Tears (Ignacio Carrion) 8. "Something Magic in the Storytelling" (Jan Goggans) 9. Writing from the Belly (Michael Toms) 10. Magical Feminist (Jennifer Benjamin and Sally Engelfried) 11. "Listen, Paula" (Alfred Starkmann) 12. After Paula (John Rodden) 13. "I Leave My Books to Their Fate" (John Rodden) 14. The Writer as Exile, and Her Search for Home (John Rodden) 15. "I Remember Emotions, I Remember Moments" (Virginia Invernizzi) 16. A Universal Message (Jan Garden Castro) 17. A Face in a Crowd (Katy Butler) 18. "Living in the Moment" (Elizabeth Heathcote) 19. "Self-Portrait in Sepia" (Cristen Reat) For Further Reading: Annotated Bibliography IndexAbout Isabel Allende
John Rodden has been a faculty member at the University of Virginia, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Pennsylvania, among other institutions. He has published more than twenty books on topics ranging from British literary criticism and American intellectual history to comparative international education, European communism and post-communism, and the politics of human rights.(BK-9780292702110)
| SKU | BK-9780292702110 |
| Barcode # | 9780292702110 |
| Brand | University of Texas Press |
| Artist / Author | John Rodden, Isabel Allende, Isabel Allende |
| Shipping Weight | 0.5000kg |
| Shipping Width | 0.150m |
| Shipping Height | 0.020m |
| Shipping Length | 0.240m |
| Assembled Length | 23.700m |
| Assembled Height | 2.100m |
| Assembled Width | 15.400m |
| Type | Paperback |
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