August /
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Author / Creator: | Paula, Romina, 1979- author. |
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Uniform title: | Augusto. English |
Edition: | First Feminist Press edition. |
Imprint: | New York, NY : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2017. ©2017 |
Description: | 1 online resource (199 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12589204 |
Other authors / contributors: | Croft, Jennifer (Translator), translator. |
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ISBN: | 9781558614277 1558614273 9781558614307 |
Notes: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2017). |
Summary: | "Traveling home to rural Patagonia, a young woman grapples with herself as she makes the journey to scatter the ashes of her friend Andrea. Twenty-one-year-old Emilia might still be living, but she's jaded by her studies and discontent with her boyfriend, and apathetic toward the idea of moving on. Despite the admiration she receives for having relocated to Buenos Aires, in reality, cosmopolitanism and a career seem like empty scams. Instead, she finds her life pathetic. Once home, Emilia stays with Andrea's parents, wearing the dead girl's clothes, sleeping in her bed, and befriending her cat. Her life put on hold, she loses herself to days wondering how if what had happened-leaving an ex, leaving Patagonia, Andrea leaving her-hadn't happened. Both a reverse coming-of-age story and a tangled homecoming tale, this frank confession to a deceased confidante. A keen portrait of a young generation stagnating in an increasingly globalized Argentina, August considers the banality of life against the sudden changes that accompany death."-- |
Other form: | Print version: Paula, Romina, 1979- August. New York : The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2017 9781558614307 |
Publisher's no.: | EB00687212 Recorded Books |
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