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Lalo
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Author : Lalo Guerrero
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2002-02
Lalo written by Lalo Guerrero and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
He has been called "the father of Chicano music" and "the original Chicano hepcat." Now, Lalo's autobiography takes readers on a musical rollercoaster, from his earliest enjoyment of Latino and black sounds in Tucson to his burgeoning career in Los Angeles singing with Los Carlistas, the quartet with which he began his recording career in 1938.
Lalo
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Author : Lalo Guerrero
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2002-02
Lalo written by Lalo Guerrero and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
He has been called "the father of Chicano music" and "the original Chicano hepcat." Now, Lalo's autobiography takes readers on a musical rollercoaster, from his earliest enjoyment of Latino and black sounds in Tucson to his burgeoning career in Los Angeles singing with Los Carlistas, the quartet with which he began his recording career in 1938.
Lalo Of Chemuyil
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Author : Barbara Khidirian
language : en
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Release Date : 2006-09
Lalo Of Chemuyil written by Barbara Khidirian and has been published by Dog Ear Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09 with Chemuyil (Mexico) categories.
The prologue describes a letter of complaint written by the author in 1988, addressed to the Secretary of Tourism, Mexico City, Mexico. The letter details a frightening event that had taken place at Chemuyil. The story then begins in December 1986 when BARBARA (49) and husband EDDY (58) cross the Rio Grande in a motor home prepared to spend months exploring Mexico. Brief travel descriptions are sprinkled with humor as they make their way to the Caribbean where they discover Chemuyil, a dream come true beach. At Chemuyil they meet LALO, the proprietor of the palapa beach bar concession. Intermittent details describe how the couple liquidated assets to prepare for a once in a lifetime adventure, traveling in their new motor home indefinitely. The gist of the narrative is a first person view of both ordinary and extraordinary lives encountered during lengthy stays at Chemuyil, but the charismatic Lalo carries the book from the moment the readers meet him. A Don Juan character for sure, yet a much respected man, Lalo's personality defines the ebb and flow of the story. Barbara and Eddy become immersed in Lalo's web of passion, money, business, drugs, gambling, and government conflict. Lalo's biography is that of a hero/anti-hero who is very well known in Quintana Roo. However, Lalo suffered from delusional pain. His anguish revolved around losing his beloved Chemuyil, followed by mental conceptions of returning to Chemuyil, and finally psychological obsessions about how he would obtain another Chemuyil. Because Lalo's highs are both humorous and tragic, the author describes the book as a tragicomedy. Although Lalo's palapa bar is at the core of the drama, mixed into the story is nature at its best in an area of sea and jungle. Vivid descriptions also cover the after effects of hurricane Gilbert, as well as the role of the modern day Maya in the Yucatan. Barbara's fascination with Maya culture, Mexican politics, and her newly adopted Mexican family, connected her to insider information about another society. Her writing is an objective view of her inside connection, a summary of journal entries recorded while living in a motor home for three years . . . wintering at Chemuyil.
Fallen Marli Lalo
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Author : Mia Mitns
language : en
Publisher: Mia Mitns
Release Date : 2016-03-05
Fallen Marli Lalo written by Mia Mitns and has been published by Mia Mitns this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-05 with Fiction categories.
A Fallen Alien? Marli has a few problems. For starters Lalo, an alien, fell from the sky into her yard. An alien! These things haven’t scientifically been proven to exist yet. How could she communicate with Lalo without making him upset? Fortunately for Marli, Lalo is kind. When Marli uncovers a better way to talk to Lalo, she finds out he has a problem— amnesia, he can't remember why he is on Earth. Lalo only knows he needs to protect Marli. On the other hand, Marli feels she needs to shield Lalo from humans. Too bad her neighbor, Kallen, becomes very suspicious the morning after Lalo arrives. The news story of a possible kidnapping makes Kallen even more anxious about strange things occurring. To find answers to Lalo's memory loss, Marli and Lalo become wrapped up in solving the kidnapping mystery. But after Lalo starts to remember and rediscover his abilities, will Marli find out that Lalo has secrets of his own? Suggested reading order: 1. Fallen (or) 2. Naya's Invasion 3. Marli and Lalo: A Fallen Mystery Notes: 1. This story continues from "Fallen" 2. This story stands alone from Naya's Invasion. However, if Naya's Invasion is read first, the story is a little richer *****Slight Spoiler***** 3. The main mystery is solved, but the story will continue *free story
Here Lies Lalo
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Author : Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado
language : en
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Release Date : 2011-04-30
Here Lies Lalo written by Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado and has been published by Arte Publico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-30 with Poetry categories.
"Stupid America, remember that chicanito / flunking math and English / he is the Picasso / of your western states / but he will die / with one thousand masterpieces / hanging only from his mind." In his poem, "Stupid America," Chicano activist poet Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado decries the lack of opportunity faced by his people: children let down by the educational system; artists and poets unable to express their creativity. "That chicano / with a big knife / he doesn't want to knife you / he wants to sit down on a bench / and carve … / but you won't let him." Known as the "poet laureate de Aztlán" and called "the grandfather of Chicano literature" in his 2004 obituary in The New York Times, Delgado used his words to fight for justice and equal opportunity for people of Mexican descent living in the United States. A twelve-year-old when he emigrated from northern Mexico to El Paso, Texas, Delgado's development as a poet and writer coincided with the Chicano Civil Rights movement, and so his poems both reflect the suffering of the oppressed and are a call to action. "We want to let america know that she / belongs to us as much as we belong in turn to her / by now we have learned to talk / and want to be in good speaking terms / with all that is america." Available for the first time to mainstream audiences, Delgado's poems included in this landmark volume were written between 1969 and 2001, and are in Spanish, English, and a combination of both languages. While many of his poems protest mistreatment and discrimination, especially as experienced by farm workers, many others focus on love of family and for the land and traditions of his people. Delgado wrote and self-published 14 books of poetry—none of which are available today—and five of them are included in this long-awaited volume. These poems by a pioneering Chicano poet and revolutionary are a must-read for anyone interested in the Chicano Civil Rights movement and the origins of Chicano literature.
The Migrant Chef The Life And Times Of Lalo Garc A
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Author : Laura Tillman
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2023-05-23
The Migrant Chef The Life And Times Of Lalo Garc A written by Laura Tillman and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A chef’s gripping quest to reconcile his childhood experiences as a migrant farmworker with the rarefied world of fine dining. Born in rural Mexico, Eduardo “Lalo” García Guzmán and his family left for the United States when he was a child, picking fruits and vegetables on the migrant route from Florida to Michigan. He worked in Atlanta restaurants as a teenager before being convicted of a robbery, incarcerated, and eventually deported. Lalo landed in Mexico City as a new generation of chefs was questioning the hierarchies that had historically privileged European cuisine in elite spaces. At his acclaimed restaurant, Máximo Bistrot, he began to craft food that narrated his memories and hopes. Mexico City–based journalist Laura Tillman spent five years immersively reporting on Lalo’s story: from Máximo’s kitchen to the onion fields of Vidalia, Georgia, to Dubai’s first high-end Mexican restaurant, to Lalo’s hometown of San José de las Pilas. What emerges is a moving portrait of Lalo’s struggle to find authenticity in an industry built on the very inequalities that drove his family to leave their home, and of the artistic process as Lalo calls on the experiences of his life to create transcendent cuisine. The Migrant Chef offers an unforgettable window into a family’s border-eclipsing dreams, Mexico’s culinary heritage, and the making of a chef.
The Book Of Lalo
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Author : Lalo Dominguez
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009-09
The Book Of Lalo written by Lalo Dominguez and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
What drove me to write my story originally, was to leave for my children and grandchildren so that they may know me and their roots. Everyone has a story to tell, but this is our story. The why we are here, the struggles we have gone through, the adventures, the comedy, the tragedies and how we have faired in the end. The making of new Americans. But in the process, I realized how many learning experiences I had to go through. How difficult the school of hard knocks is. If I can help my children and grandchildren avoid making the same mistakes I made, maybe I can help others as well. I am sure there is a little bit for everyone to enjoy. I went from not speaking English to mastering it. I went from an angry young child to an adult still working on it. From pride to forgiveness. And from redemption to atonement. No one is all good, just like no one is all bad. No one is always right, just like no one is always wrong. The different stages in our lives takes us through different roads, paths and alleys. We go through a preview of whats out there waiting for us. Like Dantes Inferno, where Virgil walks him through all the different hells and heavens. We make good choices some times. Other times, we make wrong choices. In the end, hopefully it balances out.
Lalo Wants A Real Name
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Author : Julia Mercedes-Castilla
language : en
Publisher: Xist Publishing
Release Date : 2015-06-21
Lalo Wants A Real Name written by Julia Mercedes-Castilla and has been published by Xist Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-21 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Lalo is tired of being Lalo Ramos, so he tries another, more "normal" name on for size. When his Hispanic grandparents start calling him by his new name, Lalo is worries that he may be losing his identity.
Lalo Mouse
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Author : Guillermo Vasguez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-08-05
Lalo Mouse written by Guillermo Vasguez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-05 with categories.
This is the color edition of this book.Lalo lives with his brother and two sisters near the cheese factory. He shares his neighborhood with cats, rat traps and a gang of tough guys called the Vermin. Join in the fun of Lalo's life and share the difficulties that come with living it.
Uselessness
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Author : Eduardo Lalo
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-10-11
Uselessness written by Eduardo Lalo and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-11 with Fiction categories.
A Puerto Rican student at a Paris university grapples with heartbreak and isolation in this compelling novel by the author of Simone. The streets of Paris at night are pathways coursing with light and shadow, channels along which identity may be formed and lost, where the grand inflow of history, art, language, and thought—and of love—can both inspire and enfeeble. For the narrator of Eduardo Lalo’s Uselessness, it is a world long desired. But as this young aspiring writer discovers upon leaving his home in San Juan to study—to live and be reborn—in the city of his dreams, Paris’s twinned influences can rip you apart. Lalo’s first novel, Uselessness is something of a bildungsroman of his own student days in Paris. But more than this, it is a literary précis of his oeuvre—of themes that obsess him still. Told in two parts, Uselessness first follows our narrator through his romantic and intellectual awakenings in Paris, where he elevates his adopted home over the moribund one he has left behind. But as he falls in and out of love he comes to realize that as a Puerto Rican, he will always be apart. Ending the greatest romance of his life—that with the city of Paris itself—he returns to San Juan. And in this new era of his life, he is forced to confront choices made, ambitions lost or unmet—to look upon lives not lived. A tale of the travails of youthful romance and adult acceptance, of foreignness and isolation both at home and abroad, and of the stultifying power of the desire to belong—and to be moved—Uselessness is here rendered into English by the masterful translator Suzanne Jill Levine. For anyone who has been touched by the disquieting passion of Paris, Uselessness is a stirring saga. Praise for Uselessness “In this dreamy and succinct novel, Lalo takes readers on an intimate journey of companionship abroad. . . . This book is an important exploration of the Latin American experience in Europe. . . . Uselessness is a novel of modern plight that’s brimming with hope and wisdom.” —Booklist “Exploring the themes of love, isolation, and intellectual maturation, Uselessness will resonate with anyone who has fallen in love with Paris and its extravagant promises of romance and fulfillment.” —Rachel Cordasco, BookRiot “What a powerful, bleak, and moving novel. It dwells on things—human insignificance, disappointment, compromise, failure—that most books only gesture at.” —Ross Posnock, Columbia University