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Powerful debut novel of inner-city urban Chicano experience.

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Romero's first novel is a confused and finally monotonous compilation of drugged-out scenes in a Bay Area Chicano neighborhood. Zero is a 30-year-old Chicano who has completed eight drunken years of college and now works at a printshop--filing, answering phones, smoking pot, watching his boss masturbate. In college, ``The more he learned about society, the less, it seemed, he wanted anything to do with it''--and so Zero retreats to a squalid flophouse in Ciudad Jim‚nez, a no man's land on the edge of Oakland. He finds it hard to believe that he has sunk so low, even though many--and distracting--flashbacks portray his youth as having been a long string of drinking and doing drugs. Now at the flophouse, run by a fellow printshop employee, he does more of the same, popping pills and doing heroin with other junkies boarding there. One night he seeks refuge at his girlfriend's apartment, but she's gotten tired of his ways and hands him his belongings; then a few weeks later, with no reconciliation, he's back again, and this time she dresses in her fishnet body stocking and pleasures him immeasurably. Zero's baseless good fortune continues, and when he wins a few thousand dollars playing the lottery, he decides to make a new start of life by moving away. But before he goes, he trips out on Codeine again, and, again, his girlfriend leaves him. The novel's rudderless construction becomes circular, and repetition finally crushes the story. Romero's dialogue is honest at times, but much more often it fails as miserably as Zero himself, degenerating to vapid filler: ``How you doing man, all right? Man, listen to me, man. Listen to me man. Listen here man. Listen here.'' Episodes pile up without logic in a novel that, however authentic its intentions may have been, becomes an incoherent and tired ramble. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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In his first full-length novel, oft-anthologized short-story writer Romero does a good job of portraying the trials associated with an impoverished life. But simply because a novel showcases a Chicano protagonist in a barrio setting does not mean it is necessarily moving or powerful. Calle 10 introduces us to Zero, a college-educated 30-year-old headed nowhere in a rooming house on "Calle 10"?Tenth Street?in Ciudad Jimenez, near Oakland, Calif. With no prospects, drug-addled companions, addictive tendencies of his own and little hope for his own future, Zero often dreams of ways to escape his situation, but rarely does a thing, save ingesting drugs. Romero provides little insight into Zero's true motivations or lack thereof. It is both the lack of self-examination on Zero's part and the absence of a definitive conclusion to the work which makes Calle 10 a frustrating and disappointing novel. Despite some compelling writing, brazenly realistic at times, it reads like only a fraction of a much larger piece. As an author Romero has talent to spare, but one only wishes that in a novel-length book he had worked longer and more thoughtfully on his characterizations.
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  • PublisherMercury House
  • Publication date1996
  • ISBN 10 1562790900
  • ISBN 13 9781562790905
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages156
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