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The storyteller with Nike airs, and other barrio stories / Kleya Forté-Escamilla.
Van Pelt Library PS3556.O7485 N55 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forté-Escamilla, Kleya, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hispanic Americans--Southwestern States--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Aunte Lute Books, [1994]
- Summary:
- There's no story - no matter how bent - that the Storyteller can't bring you home from. But in the barrio her hot pink fluorescent Nike Airs are all that she has to barter for your soul. While the Storyteller leaps tall teflon cactus, stops powerful locomotives with a story thread and burns up the devil incarnate, the people of the barrio stories quietly - courageously - triumph over poverty and despair. Kleya Forte-Escamilla gives us worlds of real and magic possibility.
- Contents:
- Voices overheard at the Ochoa Street reunion
- Esperanza y consuelo
- Black orchid
- Old lady gin and the magic piano
- Ribbon of fire
- Storyteller with Nike airs
- The pan birote
- Adone vive Dios?
- Come rain or come shine
- El velatorio de chapa Diaz
- Two rock blues
- Coming of age
- The painter and the vampire.
- ISBN:
- 1879960346
- OCLC:
- 30913412
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