Alvarez, Julia, 1950-

In the name of Salomé : a novel / Julia Alvarez. - New York, N.Y. : Penguin Putnam, 2001, c2000. - 357 p. ; 21 cm.

"A Plume book." Originally published : Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000.

Camila, whose mother, Salome, inspired a Dominican revolution with her poetry, spends most of her life trying to please her father and her brothers, all prominent men, before seeking a place for herself in the days following the Cuban revolution.



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Ureña de Henriquez, Salomé, 1850-1897 --Fiction.
Henriquez Ureña, Camila--Fiction.
Henrâiquez Ureäna, CamilaSalomâe, 1894-1973 --Fiction.


Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Dominican Americans--Fiction.
Women poets--Fiction.


Dominican Republic--Fiction.
Cuba--Fiction.


Biographical fiction.

118 PQ 7409 / A473i 2001