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Penguin Books (1985), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 224 pages
Description
This is the story of Sara and Richard Everton, a couple embarked on a journey of renewal. They leave a house and job in San Francisco and travel to the small Mexican village of Ibarra to reopen a copper mine, abandoned in 1910 by Richard's grandfather. They also plan to restore the family home, a crumbling reminder of the past. However, they learn that Richard is dying of leukemia.
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Being in Mexico and recognizing in Ms. Doerr’s stories the same fantastical combination of brightest sunlight, mangy village dogs, blazing bougainvillea, and sugar skulls atop frosted cakes made reading a kind of real-time experience. However, the book would have been equally enjoyable had I read
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it in back Rhode Island, perhaps on the cooling seashore, so captivated was I with this author who could write such spare, evocative prose and add a twist, as if to keep things from becoming too writerly. Show Less
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Awards
Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards (Silver Medal — Fiction — 1984)
LA Times Book Prize (Finalist — Fiction — 1984)
National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist — Fiction — 1984)
PEN Center USA Literary Award (Winner — Fiction — 1985)
PEN/Faulkner Award (Finalist — 1985)
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Physical description
224 p.; 7.74 inches
ISBN
0140075623 / 9780140075625