Bless Me, Ultima
Title | Bless Me, Ultima PDF eBook |
Author | Rudolfo A. Anaya |
Publisher | Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Bildungsromans |
ISBN | 9781597228350 |
Anaya draws on the Spanish-American folklore with which he grew up in this unique depiction of a Hispanic childhood in the Southwest.
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
Title | The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastian Barry |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2010-11-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0571266827 |
Old God's Time (March 2023), Sebastian Barry's stunning new novel, available to pre-order now Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves to be the defining decision of his life when, having witnessed the murder of a fellow RIC policeman, he is wrongly accused of identifying the executioners. With a sentence of death passed over him he is forced to flee Sligo, his friends, family and beloved girl, Viv. What follows is the story of this flight, his subsequent wanderings, and the haunting pull of home that always afflicts him. Tender, witty, troubling and tragic, The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty tells the secret history of a lost man.
The Cutting Season
Title | The Cutting Season PDF eBook |
Author | Attica Locke |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 403 |
Release | 2012-09-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062097741 |
From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire: “The Cutting Season is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.”—Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times bestselling author of Wench After her breathtaking debut novel, Black Water Rising, won acclaim from major publications and respected crime fiction masters like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos, Locke returns with The Cutting Season, a second novel easily as gripping and powerful as her first—a heart-pounding thriller that interweaves two murder mysteries, one on Belle Vie, a historic landmark in the middle of Lousiana’s Sugar Cane country, and one involving a slave gone missing more than one hundred years earlier. Black Water Rising was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an Edgar® Award, and an NAACP Image Award, and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the U.K.
Heart of Aztlan
Title | Heart of Aztlan PDF eBook |
Author | Rudolfo A. Anaya |
Publisher | Editorial Justa Publications., Incorporated |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Albuquerque (N.M.) |
ISBN | 9780915808175 |
The Albuquerque barrio portrayed in this vivid novel of postwar New Mexico is a place where urban and rural, political and religious realities coexist, collide, and combine. The magic realism for which Anaya is well known combines with an emphatic portrayal of the plight of workers dispossessed of their heritage and struggling to survive in an alien culture.
Alburquerque
Title | Alburquerque PDF eBook |
Author | Rudolfo A. Anaya |
Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Albuquerque (N.M.) |
ISBN | 9780446365444 |
Lauded as the father of Chicano storytelling in English, Rudolfo Anaya's work is famed for its cultural resonance and unforgettable characters. Here is one of his richest achievements -- a spellbinding tale of history, place, and destiny ...Nobody knows the real "Alburquerque" like young boxer Abran Gonzalez. A homeboy from the barrio, his world shatters the night he is summoned to the deathbed of his biological mother -- a woman he has never known. He learns he is the son of a wealthy Anglo woman and a father whose identity Abran feels compelled to uncover. Thus begins a passionate quest that will lead him to Alburquerque's highest, and whitest, circles. Confronting greedy businessmen, politicians, and bigots, Abran will battle for the city's future, gain insight into its vanishing past ... and discover his own soul.
Keep Blessing Us, Ultima
Title | Keep Blessing Us, Ultima PDF eBook |
Author | Abelardo Baeza |
Publisher | Eakin Press |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Going to Meet the Man
Title | Going to Meet the Man PDF eBook |
Author | James Baldwin |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2013-09-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0804149755 |
A major collection of short stories by one of America’s most important writers—informed by the knowledge the wounds racism leaves in both its victims and its perpetrators. • “If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.” —Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize-winner of The English Patient In this modern classic, "there's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob. By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying, Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers.