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Published by Dutton Adult, 1996
ISBN 10: 0525941002 ISBN 13: 9780525941002
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Published by Dutton Adult, 1996
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. From BooklistAmong the enduring joys of fiction is its capacity to subvert easy truths and simple stereotypes. In fiction, as in reality, people and situations are too complex to fit conventional wisdom's facile answers. In Bad Angel, Columbia journalism professor Benedict gives that much-criticized abstraction--the teenage mother--a voice, a face, believable emotions, and relatives and friends. Bianca Diaz is 15, Dominican American, an eighth-grader, a wife (her husband has returned to his island home, so she lives with her subway-cleaner mother), and mother of an infant daughter, Rosalba. Multiple narrators (Bianca, her mother, and Roberto, a young man who loves Bianca) describe the ambivalent attitudes and mixed emotions of a teenager laden with adult responsibilities and a grandmother torn between love for her daughter and love--and fear--for her grandchild. It's not easy for any of these characters to be certain what's best for tiny Rosalba. Benedict's journalistic specialty has been profiles of writers and artists (Portraits in Print, 1990); here she applies her skills to characters whom the press and politicians usually simply scapegoat. Mary CarrollProduct DescriptionA Dominican-American teenager living in one of New York City's toughest neighborhoods, Bianca Di+a7az struggles to cope with the poverty, despair, and hopelessness of her life to make the right decisions for herself and her baby daughter. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.From Publishers WeeklyGood intentions and a good ear carry Benedict (A World Like This) only so far in her second novel. To her credit, she has created a credible first-person voice for Bianca Rodriguez Diaz, a 14-year-old Dominican-American in New York City who, along with her infant daughter, has been abandoned by her young husband. Bianca's voice alternates with that of her mother, Teresa, a deeply religious woman who cleans subway cars for a living. Bianca's no dope, but she's clearly too young to mother her daughter. She resents the child for existing and refers to her as "the baby" rather than by her name, Rosalba. Along comes white newspaper reporter Sarah Goldin, who has been unsuccessfully trying to conceive a child. After Rosalba is hospitalized as a result of Bianca's violence, Teresa asks Sarah whether she would be interested in adopting the baby. To overcome the reluctance of both Sarah and Bianca, Teresa devises opportunities for Sarah to bond with the baby and for Bianca to be dazzled by what Sarah's relative wealth could mean for Rosalba. Bianca's second thoughts after she has surrendered the baby to Sarah lead to a made-for-TV finale in family court. Benedict, a journalist, captures something undeniably real about her characters' lives. But it's a surface reality, and in the end Bianca, Teresa and Sarah are less human beings than sociological profiles.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.About the AuthorHelen Benedict is associate professor of journalism at Columbia University.
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Published by E. P. Dutton, New York NY, 1996
ISBN 10: 0525941002 ISBN 13: 9780525941002
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Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; A Dominican-American teenager living in one of New York City's toughest neighborhoods, Bianca Diaz struggles to cope with the poverty, despair, and hopelessness of her life to make the right decisions for herself and her baby daughter. ; 293 pages.
Published by Dutton & Co, Dutton & Co, 1996
ISBN 10: 0525941002 ISBN 13: 9780525941002
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