| Product Summary | | Format: Audio Book | | ISBN: 9780061571169 | | Publisher: HarperAudio | | Publish Date: 4/1/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 205820669 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 5.75H x 5.25L x 1.5T |
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| | | In this heartfelt memoir, Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss--the death of her daughter, Paula. Unabridged. 10 CDs.
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THE SUM OF OUR DAYS opens with Isabel Allende writing a letter to her dead daughter Paula, describing what has happened in the years since she died (as described in Allende's previous memoir, PAULA). Death, tragedy, and upheaval play a major role in Allende's memoir--a junkie stepdaughter loses a child, her son's wife reveals she is a lesbian and leaves him, not to mention her family members who were killed after her uncle Salvadore Allende was deposed from office in the Chilean coup--but her writing teems with vitality, and Allende seems to embrace life in all its color, richness, and tragedy. This memoir is exhilarating, tragic, and funny, a true ode to family and love.
| Praise| "At the end of this funny, tender book you may find yourself wanting your own invitation to sit...at the author's table....No matter how often relatives stumble or screw up, Allende lovingly take them, and her reader, into her embrace." 04/04/2008 "THE SUM OF OUR DAYS, is terrific. It's funny, insightful, moving and filled with Allende's unique voice." |
| Author Bio| Isabel Allende | | Chilean writer Isabel Allende was actually born in Peru, but raised in Chile. She is the niece of Salvador Allende, the president of Chile who was deposed by a U.S.-backed military coup in 1973. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother became involved in a scandalous affair with a Chilean diplomat, whom she later married. Allende was a journalist before she began writing fiction in 1981. Married twice herself, she is the mother of a son and a daughter, and has spent much of her adult life in California. |
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