Their Dogs Came with Them: A Novel - Hardcover

Viramontes, Helena Mar Ia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525939539 ISBN 13: 9780525939535

Verlag: E P Dutton & Co Inc, 2001

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Reseña del editor

Award-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena Maria Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.A. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel. In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young women struggle to find their way through the turbulent urban landscape of the 1960s. Androgynous Turtle is a homeless gang member. Ana devotes herself to a mentally ill brother. Ermila is a teenager poised between childhood and political consciousness. And Tranquilina, the daughter of missionaries, finds hope in faith. In prose that is potent and street tough, Viramontes has choreographed a tragic dance of death and rebirth. Julia Alvarez has called Viramontes "one of the important multicultural voices of American literature" Their Dogs Came with Them further proves the depth and talent of this essential author.

Biografía del autor

Helena Maria Viramontes is the acclaimed author of The Moths and Other Stories and Under the Feet of Jesus; and the coeditor of two collections: Chicana (W) Rites: On Word and Film and Chicana Creativity and Criticism. She is the recipient of the 2006 Luis Leal Award and the John Dos Passos Award for Literature, and her short stories and essays have been widely anthologized and adopted for classroom use and university study. Viramontes lives in Ithaca, New York, where she is a professor in the Department of English at Cornell University.

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• Verlag: E P Dutton & Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0525939539
• ISBN 13: 9780525939535
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224