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“In Jimmy Santiago Baca’s haunting story collection, intricate family dramas . . . play out against the luminous, wide-open backdrop of New Mexico.” —Los Angeles Times
In his first foray into short fiction, award-winning poet and memoirist Jimmy Santiago Baca explores the territory where old-world traditions meet new-world ambitions, and characters try to make something of themselves,...
In his first foray into short fiction, award-winning poet and memoirist Jimmy Santiago Baca explores the territory where old-world traditions meet new-world ambitions, and characters try to make something of themselves,...
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215 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Two Mexican-American brothers--Lorenzo, who becomes a farmer, and Vito, who gains fame as a boxer--take different paths in life after the brutal murder of their mother, only to have their journeys converge and bring them face-to-face with a common enemy.
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New Directions paperbook volume 1142
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xv, 285 pages ; 23 cm.
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Español
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A bilingual collection of the works of the award-winning Chicano poet features poems that draw on the author's experiences as a father and a prisoner and on the lush, and sometimes stark, landscape of the Rio Grande Valley.
Eta primera selección bilingüe presenta lo mejor de su poesía al lado de traducciones al español hechas especialmente para este volumen. Se trata de un juego encantador de idiomas que revolotea con sus experiencias como poeta...
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