Happy Birthday Jesus - Hardcover

Ruiz, Ronald L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558851089 ISBN 13: 9781558851085

Publisher: Arte Publico Pr, 1994

Synopsis

Traces the creation of criminal, Jesus Oliva, a Mexican American boy who is at first shaped into the perfect victim by his grandmother and parish priest, but eventually snaps and begins a life of crime and violence

About this title

From the Publisher:

Ruiz’s successful probing into the anatomy of madness and despair combines a lyrical rendition of the most abject aspects of the human situation with keen irony.

About the Author:

After college, RONALD RUIZ went to law school, "for all the wrong reasons," as he now says. In 1975, after ten years of practicing criminal defense law, Ruiz returned to writing and began working on his critically acclaimed first novel, Happy Birthday Jesús (Arte Público Press, 1994). His second novel, Giuseppe Rocco (Arte Público Press, 1998), is the recipient of the national literary prize, the 1998 Premio Aztlán. A graduate of the University of San Francisco Law School, Ruiz is a former prosecutor for the Alameda County Distric Attorney’s Office in Oakland, California. Ruiz currently practices criminal defense law in northern California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arte Publico Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1558851089
• ISBN 13: 9781558851085
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320