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Title: Paula

Other Available Formats:
Book, 1994
Prebinding, 1994
Hardcover, 1995
Hardcover, 1995
Hardcover, 1995
Paperback, 1996
Paperback, 1996
Reinforced Hardcover, 1996
Paperback, 1998
Prebinding, 1999
Reinforced Hardcover, 2002
Paperback, 2002

Synopsis
This autobiography from best-selling writer Isabel Allende begins in December 1991, during a period when Allende's daughter Paula became gravely ill and fell into a coma. The author began her account during the long hours at the hospital and decided to record the story of her family for her unconscious daughter in an attempt to "bring [her] back to life." As in her novels, Allende conjures up the magical and questions the gods. There are anecdotes of her youthful years, Chile's physical and political landscape, the military coup of 1973, and her family's exile.

Details
Series:             P.S.
Language:        English

Size
Length:        330 Pages
Weight:        0.6 Pounds
Height:         8 Inches
Width:          5.3 Inches
Thickness:    1 Inches



Industry Reviews
"Journalism was what Isabel Allende did in her freewheeling youth, before she discovered she could write novels....She does it wonderfully well. As Paula courageously reveals, she has everything it takes: the ear, the eye, the mind, the heart, the all-encompassing humanity."
(5/21/95)
"The book is so full of life that it sometimes is hard to remember that it is also full of losses."
"...a painfully honest love story for a child that will bring tears to your eyes...Entirely without whimsy or sentiment...it is also the portrait of a modern mother...[Allende's] novels pale by comparison with this astonishingly revelatory piece of journalism. Here you will find concise and vivid portraits of Lebanon before Beirut blew up, of a Chilean childhood crossing the cordillera of the Andes, and of Columbia, where she was exiled...when the military junta took over Chile. Her account of that troubled time is brilliant..."
(10/1995)
"Allende writes here in the same style as she does in her novels: a narrative infused with magic and drama...She tells her family history alongside the history of Chile, the 'tragedy of her nation', and the years leading up to Pinochet's coup. Yet it is related at a great pace, almost like a medieval saga. This is as good as 'The House of the Spirits'..."
(10/1995)
"...a memoir of devastating passion...'Paula', despite the title, is not a biography or even an account of the life of Isabel Allende's daughter. It is Allende's own autobiography, told to a daughter who has entered a limbo between life and death...The dying daughter becomes a mirror in which the mother reaffirms her reality and comes to terms with the decisions she has made as a woman and a writer...This unflinchingly honest self-portrait becomes Allende's parting gift to her daughter...it is a tribute to Allende's skill as a writer and the depth of her soul-searching that 'Paula', written on the eve of death, is immensely life-affirming. This is one of those unusual books about suffering that has no use for pity, that manages, somehow...to give much more to the reader than would have seemed possible...Embracing life and love with all her might, Allende honors the memory of Paula..."
(11/1995)


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Paula and it was written by Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator). This edition of Paula is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is April 2008 and it has a suggested retail price of $14.95. There are 330 pages in the book and it was published by Perennial. The 10 digit ISBN is 0061564907 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780061564901. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.