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Asunto de Familia (a Private Family Matter) Memorias (a Memoir)

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ISBN-10: 1416537295

ISBN-13: 9781416537298

Edition: N/A

Authors: Victor Rivas Rivers, Vicente Echerri

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"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey of survival portrays with riveting detail how, instead of becoming a madman like his father, Victor…    
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Book details

List price: $25.99
Publisher: Atria Books
Publication date: 10/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.100