Bolivar
The Epic Life of the Man Who Liberated South America
$28.95
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2014
Summary
The dramatic life of the revolutionary hero Bolivar, who liberated South America - a sweeping narrative worthy of a Hollywood epic.
Simon Bolivar’s life makes for one of history’s most dramatic canvases, a colossal narrative filled with adventure and disaster, victory and defeat. This is the story not just of an extraordinary man but of the liberation of a continent.
A larger-than-life figure from a tumultuous age, Bolivar ignited a revolution, liberated six c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780226170 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1780226179 |
| Author: | Marie Arana |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 492g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 133mm x 40mm |
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Critics Review
Thrilling, authoritative and revelatory, here at last is a biography of Bolivar, the maker of South America, that catches the sheer extraordinary unique adventure and titanic scale of his life with accessible narrative and scholarly judgement
The case for Bolivar as one of the world’s most extraordinary 19th-century leaders is well made by Marie Arana … Arana’s prose is often beautiful. A novelist turned historian, she tells Bolivar’s story wonderfully … Two centuries after his death, Bolivar inflames passions that better-known characters no longer ignite. Arana’s biography explains why - OBSERVERI suspect that one reason why her biography is so plausible and engagingly told is that the Peruvian-born Arana is herself a writer of fiction. Like Garcia Marquez, she has an instinct for the vitalising detail … As well, his sad and contradictory story demands a novelist’s empathy - DAILY TELEGRAPHAbout The Author
Marie Arana
Peruvian by birth, Marie Arana is former literary editor of the Washington Post and author of four books: a memoir, American Chica (a finalist for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and the PEN/MARTHA ALBRAND AWARD); The Writing Life: Writers on How They Think and Work; as well as two novels set in South America: Cellophane (a finalist for the JOHN SARGENT SR. PRIZE) and Lima Nights.
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