Ladies' Gallery A Memoir of Family Secrets

Name: Ladies' Gallery A Memoir of Family Secrets
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ISBN: 9780679745464

ISBN-10: 0679745467

ISBN-13: 9780679745464

Edition: N/A

Authors: Irene Vilar

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"Lolita Lebrón's granddaughter, heir to the most public female embodiment of heroic self-sacrifice in Puerto Rico in this century, [has written] a memoir full of searing, intimate truths, silences broken open to reveal the personal costs of public myth making. . . . A momentous act of courage. " -- The Women's Review of Books A shred of black lace. A broken hand mirror. A spidery strip of false eyelash. These are the fragments left to Irene Vilar, granddaughter of Lolita Lebrón, the revered martyr for Puerto Rican independence who in 1954 sprayed the U.S. House of Representatives with gunfire. In The Ladies' Gallery, Vilar revisits the legacy of her grandmother and that of her anguished…

Book details

List price: $13.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/3/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English