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A gentle maiden aunt who has been victimized for years unexpectedly retaliates through her talent for making life-sized dolls filled with honey. “The Youngest Doll,” based on a family anecdote, is a stunning literary expression of Rosario Ferré’s feminist and social concerns. It is the premier story in a collection that was originally published in Spanish in 1976 as Papeles de Pandora and is now translated into English by...
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'The 14 stories in The Youngest Doll, as radiant as they are disturbing, are animated by ferocious river prawns, trees that weep and a 'town with beaches of whit gunpowder which thundered at dusk when the tide began to rush in.' -New York Times Book Review
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Rosario Ferré's works include Sweet Diamond Dust and The House on the Lagoon.
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- PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0803219830
- ISBN 13 9780803219830
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages171
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The Youngest Doll
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.88. Seller Inventory # G0803219830I2N00
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The Youngest Doll (Latin American Women Writers)
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ISBN 10: 0803219830
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Slight rubbing to jacket; else a near fine copy as issued. xiv, [2], 169 pages. Contains 16 short stories in all, chiefly concerning upper-middle class women married to 'macho men'. Uncredited translator; foreword by Jean Franco; includes bibliography. Originally published in Mexico in 1976 under title: Papeles de Pandora. Signed ('Rosario J. Ferre') by Ferre in black ink on title page. Seller Inventory # L059065
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THE YOUNGEST DOLL
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University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln & London, 1991
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Condition: Fine in near fine jacket. First printing. Inscribed first US edition of the Puerto Rican writer's collection of short stories and essays translated from the original Spanish by the author with Claire Ashman, Nancy Beautel, and others. Originally published as PAPELES DE PANDORA. 9'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth with silver-lettered spine. Black endpapers. In original unclipped (no price) purple pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed "Con un abrazo" by Ferré on half-title page. Minor edgewear and rubbing to jacket. Seller Inventory # 53160
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The Youngest Doll [Signed by Ferre]
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University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1991
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Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],169pp. Jacket corners lightly rubbed with some smudges and sparse scuffs to front panel. Boards clean and sharp. Signed and dated by the author on half title. Short story collection by the late Puerto Rican author forming part of the publisher's series Latin American Women Writers. Seller Inventory # 28600
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The Youngest Doll
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Publisher's original binding and dust jacket. Signed by Rosario Ferré directly on the title page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. Latin American Women Writers Series. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 021176
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