Empire of Dreams (edition 2011)

by Giannina Braschi, Tess O'Dwyer (Translator)

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Title:	Empire of Dreams
Authors:	Giannina Braschi
Other authors:	Tess O'Dwyer (Translator)
Info:	AmazonCrossing (2011), Paperback, 256 pages
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Giannina Braschi	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
O'Dwyer, Tess	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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This text combines fiction and poetry as the author describes her love affair with New York - her imagined social, political, erotic and linguistic relationship with the city.

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A collection of stream-of-consciousness jottings by a Puerto Rican woman on life in New York City. A portrait of the city by a writer with an acute sense of observation. The author teaches Spanish at a university.

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