Saving the world : a novel /
Alvarez, Julia, 1950-
Saving the world : a novel / Julia Alvarez. - 1st pbk. ed. - Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007. - 376 p. ; 21 cm.
"A Shannon Ravenel book." Reader's discussion guide included.
Includes bibliographical references.
From the Publisher: While Alma Huebert is researching a new novel, she finds her real story-and her salvation-in a little-known but staggering historical footnote: the Royal Expedition of the Vaccine. In 1803, Don Francisco Balmis embarked on a two-year sea voyage to rescue the New World from smallpox. Accompanying him were twenty-two orphan boys, acting as live carriers, and their guardian, Isabel Sendales y Gomez. As Alma digs deeper into Isabel's life, she finds her own power to commit an act as life-changing as Isabel's. In Saving the World, Julia Alvarez, author of perennial bestsellers, including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, takes us into the worlds of "two women living two centuries apart [who] each face 'a crisis of the soul' when their fates are tied to idealistic men"-(Publishers Weekly).
9781565125582 : $13.95 1565125584 : $13.95
2005053064
Balmis, Francisco Xavier de--Fiction.
Expedición Maritima de la Vacuna (1803-1810) --Fiction.
Dominican Americans in literature.
Literatura dominicana
Married women--Fiction.
Middle-aged women--Fiction.
AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Fiction.
AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Family relationships--Fiction.
Vaccination--Fiction.
Smallpox--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
118 PQ 7409 / A473s 2007
Saving the world : a novel / Julia Alvarez. - 1st pbk. ed. - Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007. - 376 p. ; 21 cm.
"A Shannon Ravenel book." Reader's discussion guide included.
Includes bibliographical references.
From the Publisher: While Alma Huebert is researching a new novel, she finds her real story-and her salvation-in a little-known but staggering historical footnote: the Royal Expedition of the Vaccine. In 1803, Don Francisco Balmis embarked on a two-year sea voyage to rescue the New World from smallpox. Accompanying him were twenty-two orphan boys, acting as live carriers, and their guardian, Isabel Sendales y Gomez. As Alma digs deeper into Isabel's life, she finds her own power to commit an act as life-changing as Isabel's. In Saving the World, Julia Alvarez, author of perennial bestsellers, including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, takes us into the worlds of "two women living two centuries apart [who] each face 'a crisis of the soul' when their fates are tied to idealistic men"-(Publishers Weekly).
9781565125582 : $13.95 1565125584 : $13.95
2005053064
Balmis, Francisco Xavier de--Fiction.
Expedición Maritima de la Vacuna (1803-1810) --Fiction.
Dominican Americans in literature.
Literatura dominicana
Married women--Fiction.
Middle-aged women--Fiction.
AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Fiction.
AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Family relationships--Fiction.
Vaccination--Fiction.
Smallpox--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
118 PQ 7409 / A473s 2007