Bless Me, Ultima - A Novel

248 pages. January 1975 Edition. English edition however the 22 chapters are numbered in Spanish. Cover price $3.75. Some cover edge and spine wear which allows some white to show through the black covers. Owner's label and initial on front endpaper. Tight, square book. Anaya was the winner of the Premio Quinto Sol national Chicano literary award and is one of today's foremost Hispanic writers. A classic tale of Northern New Mexico family life. Bless Me, Ultima reflects the deep love and respect with which the author has approached the people about who he writes. He shares and respects the collective intellectual resorvoir that is manifest in his knowledge of a people and their relationships to the cosmos and its forces. It is only with this deep respect for a people that Anaya has been able to create in literary form a person such as the Curandera Ultima, la Grande. Anaya is the winner of the Presidential Medal for the Arts in 2002. About writing this novel the author said writing is not easy. It is a lonely and oftentimes unappreciated endeavor. He is completely self-taught having never taken a writing course. He says you just have to sit down and write, wirte, write, and write . hasta que te lleva la madre, y las almorranas. Presently (1972) he is teaching in the Albuquerque Public Schools.…