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The most beautiful girl in Cuba  Cover Image Book Book

The most beautiful girl in Cuba / Chanel Cleeton.

Cleeton, Chanel, (author.).

Summary:

"At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's captivating new novel inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman-Evangelina Cisneros-who changed the course of history. A feud rages in Gilded Age New York City between newspaper tycoons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. When Grace Harrington lands a job at Hearst's newspaper in 1896, she's caught in a cutthroat world where onescoop can make or break your career, but it's a story emerging from Cuba that changes her life. Unjustly imprisoned in a notorious Havana women's jail, eighteen-year-old Evangelina Cisneros dreams of a Cuba free from Spanish oppression. When Hearst learnsof her plight and splashes her image on the front page of his paper, proclaiming her, "The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba," she becomes a rallying cry for American intervention in the battle for Cuban independence. With the help of Marina Perez, a courier secretly working for the Cuban revolutionaries in Havana, Grace and Hearst's staff attempt to free Evangelina. But when Cuban civilians are forced into reconcentration camps and the explosion of the USS Maine propels the United States and Spain toward war,the three women must risk everything in their fight for freedom"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593098875
  • ISBN: 0593098870
  • Physical Description: 372 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Berkley, 2021.
Subject: Cossio y Cisneros, Evangelina, 1879-1970 > Fiction.
Women > Fiction.
Women prisoners > Fiction.
Women journalists > Fiction.
Newspapers > Fiction.
Revolutions > Fiction.
Guerrilla couriers > Fiction.
Authors, Cuban.
Cuban American authors.
Havana (Cuba) > History > 19th century > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1865-1898 > Fiction.
Genre: War fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

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  • 24 of 24 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
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