{"product_id":"something-fierce-memoirs-of-a-revolutionary-daughter-9780345813824","title":"Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER (\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book  2011]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year  2011]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book  2011]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA BBC Radio Book of the Week  October 2011]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the CBC's 15 Memoirs by Canadian Women Worth Reading  2015]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSix-year-old Carmen Aguirre fled to Canada with her family following General Augusto Pinochet's violent 1973 coup in Chile. Five years later, when her mother and stepfather returned to South America as Chilean resistance members, Carmen and her sister went with them, quickly assuming double lives of their own. At 18, Carmen became a militant herself, plunging further into a world of terror, paranoia and euphoria.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomething Fierce\u003c\/i\u003e takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictator-ruled Bolivia, post-Malvinas Argentina and Pinochet's Chile in the eventful decade between 1979 and 1989. Dramatic, suspenseful and darkly comic, it is a rare first-hand account of revolutionary life and a passionate argument against forgetting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16157853\"\u003eCarmen Aguirre\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Books Canada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780345813824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0345813820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003ePersonal Memoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS033000\"\u003eLatin America | South America\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL042000\"\u003ePolitical Ideologies | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCARMEN AGUIRRE \u003c\/b\u003eis a Vancouver-based writer and theatre artist who has worked extensively in North and South America. She has written or co-written 20 plays, including \u003ci\u003eThe Refugee Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for a 2010 Dora Mavor Moore Award for best new play. Her most recent one-woman show is \u003ci\u003eBlue Box\u003c\/i\u003e. Aguirre has 60 film, TV and stage acting credits, including lead roles in the Showcase series \u003ci\u003eEndgame\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003eQuinceañera\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. \u003ci\u003eSomething Fierce\u003c\/i\u003e won Canada Reads in 2012, was a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize, and was a #1 National Bestseller.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Books Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885507686687,"sku":"9780345813824","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/6953\/0143\/files\/img_3ad60b5f-553f-4306-b7da-e218c2fb5324.jpg?v=1755542176","url":"https:\/\/www.mocorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/something-fierce-memoirs-of-a-revolutionary-daughter-9780345813824","provider":"MOCorrectionsbookstore.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}