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Sky Over El Nido

Author : C. M. Mayo
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820321192
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Sky Over El Nido written by C. M. Mayo and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mother rescued the three zebras that escaped from the London zoo”--so begins the first story in this whirlwind collection by C. M. Mayo. Though Mayo’s characters ricochet around the globe in search of diversion, money, enlightenment, cachet, and escape, she sets many of the stories in Sky Over El Nido in Mexico. This is not the gringo’s Mexico of margaritas, mariachis, and inscrutable house servants, but a fin-de-siècle world where a Mexican boy who guards tourists’ cars for small change wears a T-shirt that says “Six Flags Over Georgia.” Mayo’s strangely beautiful yet disturbing stories reveal characters who envision the solutions to their lives in a world where nothing is stable, nothing can be nailed down, and we are all suddenly, dizzyingly faced with sharing the same pitiless sky.

Short Story Index

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1080 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hurricanes and Carnivals

Author : Lee Gutkind
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816526253
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Hurricanes and Carnivals written by Lee Gutkind and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÒIn Mexico,Ó writes Ilan Stavans in the introduction to this provocative new collection on Mexican culture and politics, Ò [the essay] is embraced as passionately as a sport.Ó While the American essay may be personal and confessional or erudite and academic, it is presumed to be truthful. By contrast, the Mexican essay pushes the boundaries between fact and fiction as writers seek to make their opinions heardÑin literary journals, in newspapers, and even on cereal boxes. ÒWhat is real and what isnÕt in a Mexican essay, only God knows,Ó concludes Stavans. In Hurricanes and Carnivals, Lee Gutkind, a pioneer in the teaching of creative nonfiction, brings together fifteen essays by Mexican, Mexican American, and Latin American writers that push the boundaries of style and form, showing that navigating ÒtruthÓ is anything but clear-cut. Although creative nonfiction is widely thought to be an American art form, this collection proves otherwise. By blending fact and fiction, story and fantasy, history and mythology, these writers and others push the bounds of the essay to present a vision of Mexico rarely seen from this side of the border. Addressing topics that include immigration, politics, ecology, violence, family, and sexuality, they take literary license on a whirlwind adventure. C. M. Mayo shows us Mexico City as seen through the eyes of her pug, Picadou; Juan Villoro examines modern Mexico through the lens of demography; Homero Aridjis uses the plight of nesting sea turtles to document a slowly changing Mexican attitude toward natural resources; and Sam Quinones documents the decline of beauty-queen addiction in Mazatl‡n and tells us about the flower festivals where, according to lore, only two things matter: hurricanes and carnivals. For readers interested in a literary view of contemporary Mexico, as well as students of the creative nonfiction genre, this volume is essential

Bibliographic Guide to Chicana and Latina Narrative

Author : Kathy Leonard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313072248
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Chicana and Latina Narrative written by Kathy Leonard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-08-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a dramatic increase in the amount of narrative work published by Chicana and Latina authors in the past 5 to 10 years. Nonetheless, there has been little attempt to catalog this material. This reference provides convenient access to all forms of narrative written by Chicana and Latina authors from the early 1940s through 2002. In doing so, it helps users locate these works and surveys the growth of this vast body of literature. The volume cites more than 2,750 short stories, novels, novel excerpts, and autobiographies written by some 600 Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, and Nuyorican women authors. These citations are grouped in five indexes: an author/title index, title/author index, anthology index, novel index, and autobiography index. Short annotations are provided for the anthologies, novels, and autobiographies. Thus the user who knows the title of a work can discover the author, the other works the author has written, and the anthologies in which the author's shorter pieces have been reprinted, along with information about particular works.

Spinning Away from the Center

Author : Ethan Laughman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820356611
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Spinning Away from the Center written by Ethan Laughman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories offer layered, perceptive takes on what home means to us. The people we meet in these stories are often traveling to and from home--thinking about where they have come from, where they are headed, and how that journey will impact their futures. Although the stories approach homecoming and homesickness through varied moods and styles, they all come around to confronting a shared need: a place to call home.

Fodor's 2008 Mexico

Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 1400017920
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fodor's 2008 Mexico written by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on Mexican history and culture, and shares advice on sightseeing, shopping, and entertainment

Fodor's Mexico 2009

Author : Fodor's
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 140001946X
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fodor's Mexico 2009 written by Fodor's and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on Mexican history and culture, and shares advice on sightseeing, shopping, and entertainment

Miraculous Air

Author : C. M. Mayo
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781571313041
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Miraculous Air written by C. M. Mayo and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2007 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exquisite book is a rare jewel in the literature of Mexico and its little-known peninsula, Baja. Describing her adventures on this austere and beautiful slip of land, C. M. Mayo creates a multi-layered map of place filled with daredevil aviators, sea turtle researchers, Stone Age cave painters, and countless other colorful characters. Covering Baja from Cabo San Lucas to Tijuana, Mayo's wit and curiosity help her weave a story that seamlessly combines history, myth, art, and local color.

The Pale of Settlement

Author : Margot Singer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082033586X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Pale of Settlement written by Margot Singer and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In settings from Jerusalem to Manhattan, from the archaeological ruins of the Galilee to Kathmandu, The Pale of Settlement gives us characters who struggle to piece together the history and myths of their family’s past. This collection of linked short stories takes its title from the name of the western border region of the Russian empire within which Jews were required to live during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Susan, the stories’ main character, is a woman trapped in her own border region between youth and adulthood, familial roots in the Middle East and a typical American existence, the pull of Jewish tradition and the independence of a secular life. In “Helicopter Days,” Susan discovers that the Israeli cousin she grew up with has joined a mysterious cult. “Lila’s Story” braids Susan’s memories of her grandmother—a German Jew arriving in Palestine to escape the Holocaust—with the story of her own affair with a married man and an invented narrative of her grandmother’s life. In “Borderland,” while trekking in Nepal, Susan meets an Israeli soldier who carries with him the terrible burden of his experience as a border guard in the Gaza Strip. And in the haunting title story, bedtime tales are set against acts of terrorism and memories of a love beyond reach. The stories of The Pale of Settlement explore the borderland between Israelis and American Jews, emigrants and expatriates, and vanished homelands and the dangerous world in which we live today.

The Melancholy of Departure

Author : Alfred DePew
Publisher : Dog Star Press
ISBN 13 : 099199390X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book The Melancholy of Departure written by Alfred DePew and published by Dog Star Press. This book was released on 2013-08-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Filled with sharp dialogue, engaging characters, and offbeat detail, the twelve stories collected in The Melancholy of Departure describe an outsider's world of longing, disillusion, and survival, where hope is found in unexpected places and understanding comes from unlikely sources. Fully aware of the dangers that await us all — loneliness, commitment, heartbreak, love — the men and women in this collection call out to us from the fringes of society; they are prophets whose messages fall on uninterested ears.

Goodbye, Mexico

Author : Sarah Cortez
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1680030051
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Goodbye, Mexico written by Sarah Cortez and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence. Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San Miguel You see their silhouettes along the stone wall or arm in arm below the glow of garden lights huddled like foothills, earth you could plant maize in. Cowboy hats and serapes, the smell of beer and cinnamon churros. You think of family and language how the music rolls through your hips to the sweat behind your knees. How it rushes through you, to a place you still don’t know. —Lois P. Jones

The Green Tiger

Author : Barbara Goldoftas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195135113
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Green Tiger written by Barbara Goldoftas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Philippines was once famous for the beauty of its reef-ringed islands, white beaches, and lush forests. In less than a half-century, its forests were felled, its oceans over-fished, and its coral reefs destroyed. The rapid harvest of once-abundant resources has brought droughts, deadly flash floods, and the collapse of vital fisheries. As the rural economy weakened and millions migrated to cities, they overwhelmed the urban infrastructure. Today, the Philippines stands as an example of the profound and sweeping consequences of ecological decline. In The Green Tiger, Barbara Goldoftas documents this tragic trajectory. But hers is not a story of hopelessness and inevitable defeat. In lyrical, unflinching prose, she traces the struggle for conservation in the Philippines, from isolated villages to large cities, and in the process illustrates the surprising ways in which conservation and economic growth can effectively co-exist."--Publisher's website.

Listening to the Voices

Author : Charles East
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820319940
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Listening to the Voices written by Charles East and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have Voices you'd better listen to them Flannery O'Connor once said. Since 1982 the University of Georgia Press has published the winners of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, one of the country's most prestigious literary awards. Now celebrating its fifteenth year, the award continues to introduce some of the most exciting new voices in fiction writing today. Listening to the Voices is a dazzling collection of stories from the most recent winners of the award.

Blood of Mages

Author : A.J. Martinez
Publisher : Summon Sphere
ISBN 13 : 1641360291
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Blood of Mages written by A.J. Martinez and published by Summon Sphere. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akielas has lost his magic and is now on a journey to recover it. Caim, the demigod, was captured by the Specters. The Specters need one more Cosmo Jewel to be at full power and use the energy of the eclipse to cast their spell upon the world. Hope seems lost and the tri-eclipse is near. However, with all the chaos that has happened, there is still light. A new mage is protecting the last remnant of the dragon gods. The Effeelions who live in the sky lend Akielas their forces. A new weapon is discovered to defeat his enemy. Time is running out and Akielas is quickly running out of options. The fairy king foretells of the world's doom. An old friend returns from beyond Necrovania to give him a helping hand. The final battle is here and the Specters must be defeated before the tri-eclipse strips the world of all its magic.

Down on the Sidewalk

Author : Ethan Laughman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820357618
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Down on the Sidewalk written by Ethan Laughman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years—or soon to be—Ruthie, Omar, J.J., and the other kids in these stories veer in and out of touching distance to hard lessons about trust, love, and mortality. However engaged or aloof, grownups are always nearby. Far-from-perfect emissaries to the realm of adulthood, they pose questions for children even as they offer answers.

Contemporary Authors

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fodor's Los Cabos & the Baja Peninsula

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Publisher : Fodor's
ISBN 13 : 1400019680
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fodor's Los Cabos & the Baja Peninsula written by and published by Fodor's. This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive travel guide to Los Cabos and the Baja Peninsula, with maps and information on hotels and restaurants, beaches and outdoor activities, shopping and entertainment, and interesting tourist sites.