A peculiar kind of immigrant's son : stories / by Sergio Troncoso.
| Author/creator |
Troncoso, Sergio, 1961- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | El Paso, TX : Cinco Puntos Press, [2019] |
| Description | 207 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Uniform title | Short stories. Selections |
| Contents | Rosary on the border -- New Englander -- A living museum of love -- This new now -- Face to face -- Yamecah -- Fragments of a dream -- Turnaround in the dark -- Alone together -- Cross-cutting rivers in the sky -- Library Island -- Carmelita Torres -- Eternal return. |
| Abstract | "How does a Mexican American, the son of immigrants, a child of the border--la frontera--leave home and move to the heart of gringo America? How does he adapt to the seductive promises of wealth and elite universities, the rush and power of New York City? How does he make peace with a stern old-fashioned father who has only known hard labor his whole life? With a misfit family that breaches all decorum even at a funeral? With echoes of Dreiser's American Tragedy and Fitzgerald's Gatsby, Troncoso tells his luminous stories through the lens of an exile adrift in the twenty-first century, his characters suffering from the loss of culture and language, the loss of roots and home as they adapt to the glittering illusions of new worlds which ultimately seem so empty" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Short stories. |
| Genre/form | Short stories. |
| LCCN | 2019009976 |
| ISBN | 9781947627338 paperback |
| ISBN | 1947627333 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# | 40029538763 |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS3570 .R5876 A6 2019 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |