Author : Silvia Molina
Publisher : Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Gray Skies Tomorrow by : Silvia Molina
Download or read book Gray Skies Tomorrow written by Silvia Molina and published by Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Winner of the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, Gray Skies Tomorrow is a superior telling of an age-old story, that of a young woman's first love. The story takes place in England, where her relationship with a fellow countryman and poet causes a painful rupture with traditional Mexican values. He is a mature man who has already found his own voice, while she is living with an intolerant aunt who will not explain the simplest word in the new language, which is also that of adulthood, requiring her to look everything up in the dictionary. As the need to escape the matrix of her past increases, conflicting directions present themselves in the form of a teacher who tries to win her away from the poet and through a friend of her aunt who offers refuge in her apartment. The safety of a mother's love is never more than a long distance call away, and yet the heroine knows instinctively that to rely on home at this juncture is to abdicate her future as a person. Meanwhile the clock is ticking, and the result is one which can only be attributed to indecision. The fact that the author reveals the outcome early in the novel only re-enforces our interest in the perilous psychological path by which the ending is achieved, at the same time cementing its legitimacy. To read Silvia Molina's Gray Skies Tomorrow is to hold the threads of human lives in our hands."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
