9780802141811
The Importance Of A Piece Of Paper
Jimmy Santiago Baca
ISBN 13: 9780802141811
Publisher: Grove Pr
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Softcover
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In a first fiction collection by an award-winning poet, a pair of siblings confronts a betraying brother and places their community in jeopardy, a long-suffering mother's efforts to reunite her offspring have tragic consequences, and a young orphan cares for a boy whose circumstances are worse than his own. Reprint.
Review:
"Vivid, horrific, visionary, disarmingly sentimental tales: let's hope for a novel to follow soon."
Kirkus, 12/15/2003
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Book Description: 2005. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 142mm x 16mm x 209mm. Paperback. 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 t.Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. 240 pages. 0.290. Bookseller Inventory # 9780802141811 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: TBS The Book Service Ltd, United Kingdom, 2005. Hardback. Book Condition: New. Reprint. 240 x 160 mm. Brand New Book. In the title story, two siblings must face the brother who has betrayed them by selling his share of the family land and forsaking a centuries-old land grant, leaving an entire community vulnerable. In "The Three Sons of Julia," a long-suffering mother, whose one request is that all her sons come home to the barrio for the Fourth of July, watches her dream shatter as two of her sons - one a successful businessman with a white wife and the other a hard-drinking ex-con - nearly destroy her house, and each other, by the night's end. In "Runaway," a young orphan discovers the consolations of fraternity when he is forced to care for a boy whose circumstances are even more dire than his own. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780802141811 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Grove Press, New York, 2004. Paperback. Book Condition: NEW. First edition. 225pp. Octavo [21cm] Paperback. NEW. From the publisher: "Confirming his status as a writer of remarkable versatility and wisdom, award-winning poet and memoirist Jimmy Santiago Baca "continues to mine his experience, exploring conflicts between the rich traditions of Chicano culture and a modern world impatient with them" (Entertainment Weekly) in his widely praised debut collection of short fiction.In the title story, two siblings must face the brother who has betrayed them by selling his share of the family land and forsaking a centuries-old land grant, leaving an entire community vulnerable. In "The Three Sons of Julia," a long-suffering mother, whose one request is that all her sons come home to the barrio for the Fourth of July, watches her dream shatter as two of her sons—one a successful businessman with a white wife and the other a hard-drinking ex-con—nearly destroy her house, and each other, by the night’s end. In "Runaway," a young orphan discovers the consolations of fraternity when he is forced to care for a boy whose circumstances are even more dire than his own. Bookseller Inventory # 17591 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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