In the time of the butterflies
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Published
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010.
Format
Book
Edition
1st Algonquin pbk.
ISBN
9781565129764, 1565129768
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Published
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010.
Edition
1st Algonquin pbk.
Language
English
ISBN
9781565129764, 1565129768
Notes
General Note
"Reader's guide and other special features inside"--Cover p. 4.
Description
"It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found dead near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their death as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas--the Butterflies. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from hair ribbons and secret crushes to gunrunning and prison torture, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo's rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez's imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage, love, and the human cost of political oppression"--Cover, p. 4.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,5.8,18,21632.
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FICTION
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Alvarez, J. (2010). In the time of the butterflies (1st Algonquin pbk.). Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. 2010. In the Time of the Butterflies. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of the Butterflies Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of the Butterflies 1st Algonquin pbk., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010.
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