DOC General Sketch of the History of Pantheism by C E. Plumptre in History

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A passionate; lyrical; tough-minded account of an extraordinary life in art; revolution; and love. It's a book to relish; to read and re-read. Unforgettable. --Salmon RushdieAn electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer (“A wonderfully free and original talent”—Harold Pinter) and central figure in the Sandinista Revolution. Until her early twenties; Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-class cocoon: sheltered from the poverty in Managua in a world of country clubs and debutante balls; educated abroad; early marriage and motherhood. But in 1970; everything changed. Her growing dissatisfaction with domestic life; and a blossoming awareness of the social inequities in Nicaragua; led her to join the Sandinistas; then a burgeoning but still hidden organization. She would be involved with them over the next twenty years at the highest; and often most dangerous; levels. Her memoir is both a revelatory insider’s account of the Revolution and a vivid; intensely felt story about coming of age under extraordinary circumstances. Belli writes with both striking lyricism and candor about her personal and political lives: about her family; her children; the men in her life; about her poetry; about the dichotomies between her birth-right and the life she chose for herself; about the failures and triumphs of the Revolution; about her current life; divided between California (with her American husband and their children) and Nicaragua; and about her sustained and sustaining passion for her country and its people.