The Ladies' Gallery: A Memoir of Family Secrets

by Irene Vilar

Lolita Lebro n's granddaughter, heir to the most public female embodiment of heroic self-sacrifice in Puerto Rico in this century, has written] a memoir full of searing, intimate truths, silences... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679745467
• ISBN13: 9780679745464
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

I wish I had known...

It wasn't until I was a few pages into the first chapter, when I realized that this is Vilar's book entitled "A Messsage from God in the Atomic Age", with a new title. Now, I have both of her books, or rather, 2 of the same books. This seems rather curious to me.

memoir and depression as art

Startling, this is a visionary memoir of Puerto Rico's political, social and cultural wars for its identity told by the heir to one of the most important heroine and political leader in Latin America in this his century. Vilar is an unmistakable talent and this book an extraordinary and unusual example of how memoir as therapy becomes memoir as art. The word depression will not mean the same to you after you read this book.

the ladies' gallery

This is a beautifully written memoir by the grand-daughter of Puerto Rican nationalist Lolita Lebron. Alternating chapters, Vilar presents her family history as well as her personal memoirs from inside of a mental hospital. This is not necessarily meant to be a political project. Nonetheless, it effectively captures the the emotion and experience of a woman who has inherited a heavy political legacy.