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In the time of the butterflies / Julia Alvarez.

Summary:

The life and death of three revolutionary sisters in the Dominican Republic, told by a surviving fourth. One by one the Mirabal Sisters, as they were known, join the opposition to the Trujillo dictatorship in the 1950s, suffering imprisonment and torture while their men watch powerless. They are released, then one night their jeep is ambushed. A story based on real events by the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.

Record details

ISBN: 9780452274426
ISBN: 0452274427
ISBN: 1565120388
ISBN: 9781565120389
ISBN: 1565129768
ISBN: 9781565129764
ISBN: 9781448733705
ISBN: 1448733707
Physical Description: 325 pages ; 23 cm
Edition: 1st edition.
Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994.
Copyright: ©1994.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Dede, 1994 and circa 1943 -- Minerva, 1938, 1941, 1944 -- Maria Teresa, 1945 to 1946 -- Patria, 1946 -- Dede, 1994 and 1948 -- Minerva, 1949 -- Maria Teresa, 1953 to 1958 -- Patria, 1959 -- Dede, 1994 and 1960 -- Patria, January to March 1960 -- Maria Teresa, March to August 1960 -- Minerva, August to November 25, 1960 -- Dede, 1994 -- A Postscript.
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 5.8 18. Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 18.0 21632. Reading Counts RC High School 7.1 22 Quiz: 05813 Guided reading level: NR.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Also issued online.