{"id":922,"date":"2008-11-26T07:05:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T12:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=922"},"modified":"2012-04-23T21:54:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:54:48","slug":"cristina-garcia-uww-12108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/922","title":{"rendered":"Cristina Garcia @ UWW 12\/1\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HandbookCristina Garcia<\/strong><\/big><\/span> will be at Young Auditorium<\/strong> on Mon.\u00a0Dec. 1st, 7 pm<\/strong>, for the Community Reading Initiative co-sponsored by the Auditorium and the College of Letters and Sciences<\/a>. Her 2007 novel A Handbook to Luck<\/em><\/a><\/strong> tells the story of three teenagers from around the globe making their way in the world through the years, surviving war, disillusionment, and love, as their lives and paths intersect.<\/p>\n

Born in Havana, Cuba and raised in New York City, Garcia is an important contemporary Latin American writer.\u00a0Her first novel, Dreaming in Cuban<\/em><\/a>, was nominated for a 1992 National Book Award<\/a>.\u00a0She also served as Time<\/em> magazine’s bureau chief for Florida and the Caribbean and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship<\/a>, a Hodder Fellowship<\/a> at Princeton, and the Whiting Writers Award<\/a>.
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\nYour University Library has both of the novels mentioned above.<\/strong> Search the Library Catalog<\/a> for the author for locations & call numbers. If the titles are checked out here, UWW students and staff may request them from other UW campus libraries by using the free Universal Borrowing<\/a> service.<\/p>\n

The University Library also has resources about Latin American writers and literature<\/strong>, such as The Cambridge companion to the Latin American novel<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, PQ7081 .L37 2005–searching the text using Google Book Search will show where Cristina Garcia is mentioned in this book) and Encyclopedia of Latin American literature<\/em><\/a> (2nd-floor Reference Collection, PQ7081.A1 E56 1997). You can search the Reference Universe<\/a> database to find mentions of Ms. Garcia in other reference works in the University Library. Searching article databases such as Project MUSE<\/a> or MLA International Bibliography<\/a> will find articles such as “An interview with Cristina Garcia<\/a>” (Contemporary Literature<\/em>, 2007, v.48 no.2). Biographical information about Ms. Garcia is available from WilsonWeb’s Biography Reference Bank Select Edition<\/a> database as well as free sources such as Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Please ask a Reference librarian<\/a> if you would like assistance in finding materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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