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Calcines, Eduardo F.
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Calcines, Eduardo F.
Cubans -- Biography.
Refugees -- United States -- Biography.
Cuba -- History -- 1959-1990.
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Calcines, Eduardo F.
Calcines, Eduardo F.
Cubans -- Biography.
Refugees -- United States -- Biography.
Cuba -- History -- 1959-1990.
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Leaving Glorytown : one boy's struggle under Castro / Eduardo F. Calcines.
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Calcines, Eduardo F.
Farrar Straus Giroux, c2009.
Call #:
972
.91064
C144L
Subjects
Calcines, Eduardo F.
Cubans -- Biography.
Refugees -- United States -- Biography.
Cuba -- History -- 1959-1990.
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ISBN:
9780374343941 (hardcover)
0374343942 (hardcover)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
221 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Coming to Glorytown -- The revolution -- The Bay of Pigs -- Our last noche buena -- More changes -- Stories to ease the pain -- Tio William's arrest -- 149901 -- Gusanos -- Remember the Lord -- More goodbyes -- Panetelas de vainilla -- The ashes of spring -- La Natividad -- Nguyen Van Troy -- Papa's homecoming -- Senora Santana -- A taste of freedom -- Planning to escape -- Flight to freedom.
Summary:
When Eduardo Calcines was three years old, Communists took control of Cuba. Eleven years passed before Calcines and his family were finally able to leave the country. Now sixty-three, Calcines, a successful American businessman, recounts what it was like to grow up under Fidel Castro's rule.
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A Junior Library Guild selection
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Autobiographies.
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