The Wetback And Other Stories
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The Wetback And Other Stories
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Author : Ron Arias
language : en
Publisher: Arte Público Press
Release Date : 2016-09-30
The Wetback And Other Stories written by Ron Arias and has been published by Arte Público Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-30 with Fiction categories.
In the title story, Mrs. Rentería shouts, “David is mine!” as she and her neighbors gather about the dead but handsome young man found in the dry riverbed next to their homes in a Los Angeles barrio. “Since when is his name David?” someone asks, and soon everyone is arguing about the mysterious corpse’s name, throwing out suggestions: Luis, Roberto, Antonio, Henry, Enrique, Miguel, Roy, Rafael. Many of the pieces in this collection take place in a Los Angeles neighborhood that used to be called Frog Town, now known as Elysian Valley. Ron Arias reveals the lives of his Mexican-American community: there’s Eddie Vera, who goes from school yard enforcer to jail bird and finally commando fighting in Central America; a boy named Tom, who chews his nails so incessantly that it leads to painful jalapeño chili treatments, banishment from the neighborhood school and ultimately incarceration in a school for emotionally disturbed kids; and Luisa, a young girl who can’t resist an illicit visit to Don Noriega, an old man the kids call El Mago who is known as a curandero in their neighborhood. Most of the 14 stories included in this volume were originally published in journals that no longer exist, including El Grito: A Journal of Contemporary Mexican-American Thought, Caracol and Revista Chicano-Riqueña. The author of an important novel—The Road to Tamazunchale—published during the Chicano literary movement of the 1970s, Arias was one of the first to use magic realism and connect U.S. Hispanic literature to its more popular, Latin-American cousin. The Wetback and Other Stories finally gathers together and makes available the short fiction of a pioneer in Mexican-American literature. “I felt reading these wonderful stories that I was admitted to an adjacent neighborhood, a rich culture that is another world—call it Amexica—both mysterious and magical, that is persuasive through its tenderness. My hope is that Ron Arias continues to write short stories that tell us who we are.”—Paul Theroux "The Road to Tamazunchale is one of the first achieved works of Chicano consciousness and spirit."— Library Journal
Wetback
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Author : Claud Garner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10
Wetback written by Claud Garner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.
Up Against The Wall
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Author : Peter Laufer
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2020-09-14
Up Against The Wall written by Peter Laufer and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-14 with Political Science categories.
The book offers a step-by-step blueprint of radical proposals for the U.S.-Mexican border that go far beyond traditional initiatives to ease restrictions on immigration. Up Against the Wall provides the background to understanding how the border has become a fraud, resulting in nothing more than the criminalization of Mexican and other migrants. The book argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open for Mexicans wishing to travel north.
Dick Contino S Blues And Other Stories
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Author : James Ellroy
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-11-30
Dick Contino S Blues And Other Stories written by James Ellroy and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Fiction categories.
James Ellroys epochal first collection of short fiction. Dick Contino - 50s accordian player, a star in the making, is destroyed by a draft-dodging scandal. His life is on the skids until he comes up with the idea of resurrecting his career with a fake kidnapping scam. meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose in Los Angeles...a killer who is closer to Contino than he suspects - a killer who wants in on the kidnap - for real... Plus five previously unpublished short stories.
The Almost Murder And Other Stories
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Author : Theresa Saldana
language : en
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Release Date : 2008
The Almost Murder And Other Stories written by Theresa Saldana 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 2008 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Presents a collection of short stories in which young Latinas must deal with a variety of problems, including alcoholism, domestic violence, and obesity.
The Wheel Of Fortune Other Stories
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Author : Roger Leslie Paige
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019
The Wheel Of Fortune Other Stories written by Roger Leslie Paige and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Fiction categories.
This is my tenth collection of short stories. An elderly man becomes ?news? after he writes about his encounter with Ernest Hemingway in Pamplona years ago. A writer holidaying in West Texas meets James Dean in Marfa years after the latter's supposed death. A postal clerk remembers selling a stamp to John Wayne who was filming in London. A reporter traces the ex-chauffeur of a gangster to learn his story. A British Lord worries about his accident prone wife who has gone skiing in the Scottish Borders. A mystery writer becomes a witness in a local murder. A strange ship loads an odd cargo in a port. A mute, nameless man becomes a patient in a psychiatric hospital. A sunken treasure is found off the coast of Florida during a Presidential political campaign. They are a mixed bag of old and new, some semi-autobiographical or humourous, all intended to entertain.
La Posada And Other Stories
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Author : Robert Miskimon
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2001-03-28
La Posada And Other Stories written by Robert Miskimon and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-28 with Fiction categories.
A collection of stories that includes the novella-length La Posada, the story of a group of Mexican-American farmworkers in the Salinas Valley of California who defy their corporate bosses to form a union and create their own farming cooperative. Other stories deal with the pain of adolescent love, rural eccentrics of the South and the death of a loved one.
In The Empire Of Underpants And Other Stories
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Author : Robert Jeschonek
language : en
Publisher: Robert Jeschonek
Release Date : 2018-07-25
In The Empire Of Underpants And Other Stories written by Robert Jeschonek and has been published by Robert Jeschonek this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-25 with Fiction categories.
Imagine a world without humans, where smart clothes equipped with apparel intelligence fight for supremacy. When a brave pair of smart-briefs sets out on a quest to cure his people's madness, he ends up in the middle of an all-out wardrobe war instead. Outnumbered by outfits fashioned for mayhem, with the future of smart garments everywhere hanging by a thread, do the smart-briefs stand a chance of cutting off the power-mad Hive Twine before it sews up a dark future for all clothing-kind? Don't miss this surprising story by award-winning writer Robert Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected science fiction that really packs a punch. Contents Short story plus novel preview
Fight Like A Man Other Stories We Tell Our Children
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Author : Christine Granados
language : en
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Release Date : 2017
Fight Like A Man Other Stories We Tell Our Children written by Christine Granados and has been published by University of New Mexico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Fiction categories.
"Like her characters, Christine Granados is not afraid to step up and in. It doesn't matter who, what man or woman, Chicano or Chicana, she's fighting to win."--Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning: Stories
Bad Jews And Other Stories
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Author : Gerald Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Bad Jews And Other Stories written by Gerald Shapiro and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Bad Jews and Other Stories is a nuanced and comic vision of life, love, and spiritual adventurism among the determinedly secular class of contemporary American Jews. Separated from the character-building hardships endured by their parents and grandparents, unable to find a faith of their own or for that matter to believe in much of anything at all, the characters of Bad Jews and Other Stories wander through the moral landscape of their lives in a loopy version of the Children of Israel?s meandering way home. Along the way they suffer a range of antic, often absurd misadventures. And as often as not they find redemption as well as disaster.