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Alina García-Lapuerta
Auteur de La Belle Créole: The Cuban Countess Who Captivated Havana, Madrid, and Paris
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Alina García-Lapuerta
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 26
- Popularité
- #495,361
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 5
I loved Mercedes stories of her childhood and the way that they were captured. Her daring escapes from her relative's imprisonment as well as the convent were exciting as well as humorous, even if they were romanticized by Mercedes later in life. Mercedes time in Cuba was the most interesting to me, the landscape, houses, family issues and Mercedes antics made her childhood seem like an adventure. Her parents lives were equally as entertaining and it's easy to see where her personality, persuasive ways and flare for the dramatic came from. In her adulthood Mercedes went from Spain to France and hosted extravagant salons featuring premiere artists and musicians of the day. This section painted a beautiful portrait of France at the time and the luxuriousness of Mercedes' salons. Luckily, Mercedes wrote about her life in her published memoirs. I had only wished that I could have read more of the actual excerpts that Mercedes had written. Alina Garcia-Lapuerta has pulled the most interesting times out of Mercedes varied past and brought to life a captivating woman who was ahead of her time.
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