Revolution

Revolution - Paperback

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Revolution - Paperback

Revolution - Paperback

by Deb Olin Unferth
$19.99
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Book Overview

Hailed as a "virtuosic one-woman show" (Time Out New York) this New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice pick tells the funny and poignant story of the year the author ran away from college with her idealistic boyfriend and followed him to Nicaragua to join the Sandinistas.

Despite their earnest commitment to a myriad of revolutionary causes and to each other, Deb and her boyfriend find themselves unwanted, unhelpful, and unprepared as they bop around Central America, looking for "revolution jobs." The year is 1987, a turning point in the Cold War, although the world doesn't know it yet, especially not Unferth and her fiancé (he proposes on a roadside in El Salvador). The months wear on and cracks begin to form in their relationship: they get fired, they get sick, they run out of money, they grow disillusioned with the revolution and each other. But years later the trip remains fixed in her mind and she finally goes back to Nicaragua to try to make sense of it all. Unferth's heartbreaking and hilarious memoir perfectly captures the youthful search for meaning, and is an absorbing rumination on what happens to a country and its people after the revolution is over.
ISBN9781250002686
Author Deb Olin Unferth
PublisherSt. Martin's Griffin
GenreBiography
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2012
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Deb Olin Unferth

DEB OLIN UNFERTH teaches creative writing at Wesleyan University. She has been published in Harper's, NOON, 3rd Bed, McSweeney's, Fence, and many other places and is also the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. Her first book, Minor Robberies, a collection of stories, was published by McSweeney's.

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