The Resource Afterlife, Julia Alvarez
Afterlife, Julia Alvarez
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The item Afterlife, Julia Alvarez represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Afterlife, Julia Alvarez represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves--lines from her favorite authors play in her head like a soundtrack--but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words. Afterlife is a compact, nimble, and sharply droll novel. Set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust, it asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families, including--maybe especially--members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost?
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 25 min.))
- Isbn
- 9781528898553
- Label
- Afterlife
- Title
- Afterlife
- Statement of responsibility
- Julia Alvarez
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves--lines from her favorite authors play in her head like a soundtrack--but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words. Afterlife is a compact, nimble, and sharply droll novel. Set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust, it asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families, including--maybe especially--members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost?
- Accompanying matter
- technical information on music
- Cataloging source
- Midwest
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Alvarez, Julia
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- Literary text for sound recordings
- fiction
- PerformerNote
- Narrated by Alma Cuervo
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1951-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Cuervo, Alma
- hoopla digital
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Authors
- Widows
- Grief
- Undocumented immigrants
- Responsibility
- Target audience
- adult
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- Afterlife, Julia Alvarez
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
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- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 25 min.))
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781528898553
- Isbn Type
- (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- not applicable
- Kind of material
- unknown
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 13341498
- Publisher number
- MWT13341498
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- access
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- other
- System control number
- (MWT)MWT13341498
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- Afterlife, Julia Alvarez
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 25 min.))
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
-
- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781528898553
- Isbn Type
- (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- not applicable
- Kind of material
- unknown
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 13341498
- Publisher number
- MWT13341498
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- access
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- other
- System control number
- (MWT)MWT13341498
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
Library Locations
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Evanston Public Library Chicago AveBorrow it900 Chicago Ave., Suite 102, Evanston, IL, 60202, US42.034188 -87.679606
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Evanston Public Library MainBorrow it1703 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, IL, 60201, US42.048419 -87.680008
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Evanston Public Library North BranchBorrow it2026 Central Street, Evanston, IL, 60201, US42.064193 -87.702066
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