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| | Rocky Mountain News: Books |
 | | But her style is part of the story in Zorro, a tale that would have been at home in the long-gone pulps, where Allende would have been the perfect serialized writer-for-hire. |
 | | Zorro begins during Spanish colonial times in California, with the meeting of Diego de la Vega's parents: his father, Captain Alejandro de la Vega, a Spanish soldier, and his mother, the half-Spanish, half-American Indian Regina, née Toypurnia. |
 | | It is clear that Allende became enamored of Zorro, and she has succeeded in making him her own character, so much so that it will be difficult for another novelist to take up the cape, mask, and sword of Zorro in her wake. |
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