Memory of Fire. Faces & Masks.
New York: Pantheon, 1987. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This second volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Faces and Masks is an astonishing Latin American-eye view of the New World in the making. Here is the tangled, cataclysmic history of our hemisphere from the 1700s up to the dawn of our present century, told through characters as resonant and compelling as Simon Bolívar, Toussaint L'Ouverture, and Billy the Kid. With its brilliant and imaginative blend of journalism, scholarship, and political passion, Faces and Masksis a panoramic interpretation of the Americas no work of history has previously imagined. Item #29337
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