The House of Forgetting - Softcover

Saenz, Benjamin Alire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804118310 ISBN 13: 9780804118316

Verlag: Ivy Books, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Emerging from twenty years of captivity and sexual servitude to a respected professor, who kidnapped her when she was seven years old, Gloria Santos struggles to resist the temptation to revenge that could cost her her newfound freedom. Reprint.

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Benjamin Alire Sáenz is the author of Carry Me Like Water; Flowers for the Broken, a short story collection; and two poetry collections, Dark and Perfect Angels and Calendar of Dust, winner of the 1992 American Book Award. He teaches creative writing at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he lives with his wife.

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oria Santos accepts a ride with a charming stranger--and loses the only world she has ever known. Abducted and kept hidden by a respected academic for twenty long years, Gloria is raised in the shadow of her captor's dark, disturbed mind. She enters womanhood believing that life demands servitude, love means obsession, and fear is all-encompassing.

Driven to violence to free herself, Gloria is caught between a world she hates and one she does not know. Now she must find the strength to bury her twisted past--or risk losing her newfound freedom forever. . . .

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Ivy Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0804118310
• ISBN 13: 9780804118316
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 377
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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