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...Isabel Allende The House of the Spirits, this conventional plot line is infused with a flair for fantasy and magic pecliar to the gfreat I am American author of the last 25 years Like Miguel Angel Asturials and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Children Allende presents such oddities as a child who can see the future, a beautiful woman with almost transparent skin and green hair and a dog larger than a horse with utter disregard for any possible disbelief. Like the best of Marquez, The House of The Sports retains the innocence. Which comes from writing about the bizarre...
Chopin performed on the piano by invisible hands, a horse-size dog with crocodile claws who feeds on marmalade, chairs that dance and saltcellars that scamper across the dining table. These are some of the fantastic images in The House of the Spirits, a first novel by Isabel Allende that has captivated readers in Latin America and Western Europe. Published in Spanish in 1982, it quickly became a best seller in Spain and many Latin American countries. Foreign-language versions that appeared last year have sold 400,000 copies in France and kept the book on the best-seller list...
...ambitious teenager, she changed her name from Cicily Isabel Fairfield to Rebecca West, after one of Ibsen's strong-minded heroines, and then spent much of her life in the public spotlight. In 1912 she began a tumultuous ten- year affair with H.G. Wells and in 1914 bore him a son; meanwhile, her writing began to attract attention. She produced fiction, biography, history, criticism and a steady supply of journalism. She espoused feminism in its early wave and patriotism during the period after World War II when her native England reeled with self-doubt. Although she died...
...expected it," said Isabel T. Lagomasino '86. "I think he did a good job for the first four years. He was the better...
...Denholm Elliot plays Uncle Elliot, the quintessential Maugham man of society with impeccable charm and studied superficiality. "I spent my life with the great names of Europe," he says with the perfect match of weariness and savoir-faire, "and who comes to visit me." Less successfully, Catherine Hicks portrays Isabel with the pain and confusion one associates with "the drugs and all of that" that are the sum of our knowledge of Isabel...