Mexican hooker #1 : and my other roles since the revolution
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345813848
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Physical Description:
279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
regular print
print - Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
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Subject: | Aguirre, Carmen -- 1967- Dramatists, Canadian (English) -- 21st century -- Biography Rape victims -- Canada -- Biography |
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- 15 of 16 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | 812.6 Agui (Text) | 33294001957448 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
A powerful, heartfelt and grippingly honest memoir of finding meaning in life and one's voice as an artist after being a teenaged revolutionary, and of developing the strength to confront a childhood trauma. Carmen Aguirre has lived many lives, all of them to the full. At age six she was a Chilean refugee adjusting to life as a Latina in North America. At eighteen she was a revolutionary dissident married to a generous-hearted man she couldn't fully love. In her early twenties she fought to find her voice as an actress and to break away from the stereotypical roles thrust upon her: housekeeper, hotel maid, Mexican hooker #1, all the while navigating the complex paths of lust and heartbreak. As she grew in her career, Aguirre became a writer, a director, an actress, and then a mother, but alongside her many multi-faceted identities was another that was unbearable to embrace yet impossible to escape; that of the thirteen-year-old girl attacked by one of Canada's most feared rapists. Thirty-three years after the assault, Aguirre decided it was time to meet the man who changed her life.