| The Hacienda: A Memoir Contributor(s): St Aubin de Teran, Lisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316816884 ISBN-13: 9780316816885 Publisher: Back Bay Books OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1999 Annotation: From a prize-winning British author comes a lush, absorbing memoir--an "Out of Africa" set in the Venezuelan Andes. Tremendously atmospheric, "The Hacienda" brilliantly evokes the unique confluence of time, place, and people that shaped this powerful writer. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.64" W x 8.42" (1.00 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Latin America - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lisa St. Aubin de Teran was a romantic seventeen-year-old when she married a South American aristocrat twenty years her senior. Seduced by tales of his ancestral home, she left England for his family's plantation deep in the Venezuelan Andes -- where, almost at once, the fantasy disintegrated. Teran found herself trapped in a world she knew nothing about, married to a man who grew increasingly unstable, and surrounded by peasants and plantation workers who would come to rely on her for help. |