Dancing With Cuba: A Memoir Of The Revolution
by Alma Guillermoprieto
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- 0375725814
- ISBN 13
- 9780375725814
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Vintage. Used; Very Good. Vintage 2005. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: none. Small remainder mark <br />In 1970 a young dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba's National School of Dance. For six months, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more revolutionary); her poorly trained but ardent students worked without them but dreamt of greatness. Yet in the midst of chronic shortages and revolutionary upheaval, Guillermoprieto found in Cuba a people whose sense of purpose touched her forever. In this electrifying memoir, Guillermoprieto - now an award-winning journalist and arguably one of our finest writers on Latin America - resurrects a time when dancers and revolutionaries seemed to occupy the same historical stage and even a floor exercise could be a profoundly political act. Exuberant and elegiac, tender and unsparing, Dancing with Cuba is a triumph of memory and feeling. . 2005. TRADE PAPERBACK.
Synopsis
Alma Guillermoprieto writes frequently for The New Yorker (where the first chapter of this book appeared in 2002) and The New York Review of Books . She is the author of Looking for History , The Heart That Bleeds , and Samba , and she was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1995. Raised in Mexico and the United States, she now makes her home in Mexico City.
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- Galveston Books (US)
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- 9780375725814
- Title
- Dancing With Cuba: A Memoir Of The Revolution
- Author
- Alma Guillermoprieto
- Format/Binding
- TRADE PAPERBACK
- Book Condition
- Used; Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0375725814
- ISBN 13
- 9780375725814
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2005
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