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La promesa and other stories / Leroy V. Quintana.
Van Pelt Library PS3567.U365 P76 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quintana, Leroy.
- Series:
- Chicana & Chicano visions of the Américas ; v. 1.
- Chicana & Chicano visions of the Américas ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- New Mexico--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- New Mexico.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--New Mexico--Fiction.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- World War, 1939-1945--New Mexico--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Hispanic Americans--Fiction.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 158 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Welcome to the other San Miguel, a fictional town in New Mexico. It's the sort of town that has survived a burning rosary, the face of Jesus appearing on a wall, a sixteen-foot rattler, Mosco Zamora's repeated promises to stop drinking ("No drinking. Absolutamente"), a new doctor who brings a woman back from the dead, a tow-truck driver who wins the demolition derby every Saturday night, Maria Martinez's World-Famous macaroons, the worst roads in the state, and the fractured dreams of a boy who was sent to Vietnam.
- This collection of short stories by Leroy V. Quintana follows Mosco Zamora, a World War II veteran, and Johnny Barros, a Vietnam veteran, through haphazard collisions of fantasy and reality in small-town New Mexico and beyond. Quintana's eloquence as a poet infuses his candid and imaginative narration of stories drawn from both his own life and the tales spun by his father-in-law, a native of Silver City, New Mexico.
- ISBN:
- 0806134496
- OCLC:
- 48803354
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