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I Want to Buy a Vowel

Published
Jan 1996
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General Fiction General Fiction
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231

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Guatemalan immigrant Alfredo Santayana does not know much English except for the phrase "I want to buy a vowel," which earns him great wealth in America, but Alfredo has much more to learn, in a touching novel about the immigrant experience. Reprint.

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Nov 1997 Berkley ISBN 0425160815
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First Edition Jan 1996 Algonquin ISBN 156512118X
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Oct 1999 Sagebrush ISBN 0613094875
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