New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. First Edition of the author's first book. SIGNED by the author on the title page.

Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket is extremely bright, with a touch of rubbing at the spine ends and corners.

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Long before her award winning novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents , and In the Time of the Butterflies , Julia Alvarez was writing poetry that gave a distinctive voice to the Latina woman-and helped give to American letters a vibrant new literary form. Homecoming, was Alvarez's first published collection of poetry, a work of great subtlety and power in which the young poet returned to her old-world childhood in the Dominican Republic. Now this revised and expanded edition adds thirteen new poems. These more recent writings are still deeply autobiographical in nature, but written with the edgier, more knowing tone of a woman who has seen, and survived, more of life. Wonderfully lucid and engaging, toned with deep emotionality and a wry observation of life, the poems of Julia Alvarez stand next to her fiction to both delight us and give us lessons in living and loving.

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Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 145296
Title: Homecoming (Signed First Edition)
Author: Julia Alvarez
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0394538552
ISBN 13: 9780394538556
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1985
Keywords: Poetry
Bookseller catalogs: Poetry;

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