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The last of the menu girls / Denise Chávez.
Van Pelt Library PS3553.H346 L3 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chávez, Denise.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 190 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houston : Arte Público Press, 1986.
- Summary:
- THE LAST OF THE MENU GIRLS is comprised of seven interrelated stories that, through shifting narrative voices, define the protagonist, Rocio Esquibel, as she takes stock of her family and society. An acute awareness of accent, tone and dialect enliven characters rarely depicted in fiction: janitors, gardeners and nurse's aides.
- Contents:
- The last of the menu girls
- Willow game
- Shooting stars
- Evening in Paris
- The closet
- Space is a solid
- Compadre.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is second printing, 1987.
- ISBN:
- 0934770468
- OCLC:
- 13768453
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