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Do�a B�rbara

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ISBN-10: 0226279200

ISBN-13: 9780226279206

Edition: 2012

Authors: R�mulo Gallegos, Robert Malloy, Larry McMurtry

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Rómulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela’s first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela’s literary treasures, the novelDoña Barbara. Published in 1929 and all but forgotten by Anglophone readers,Doña Barbarais one of the first examples of magical realism, laying the groundwork for later authors such as Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.            Following the epic struggle between two cousins for an estate in Venezuela,Doña Barbarais an examination of the conflict between town and country, violence and intellect, male and female. Doña Barbara is a beautiful and mysterious woman—rumored…    
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Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Larry McMurtry, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other awards, is the author of twenty-four novels, two collections of essays, two memoirs, more than thirty screenplays, & an anthology of modern Western fiction. He lives in Archer City, Texas.