LA PROMESA AND OTHER STORIES

C2002 INSCRIBED "PARA LEE" BY AUTHOR, VERY GOOD HARDBACK IN DJ UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS [QUINTANA, LEROY V.] SIGNED / INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, STURDY & BRIGHT , UNMARKED TEXT

From Publisher:

Welcome to the other San Miguel, a fictional town in New Mexico. It's the sort of town that has survived a burning rosary, the face of Jesus appearing on a wall, a sixteen-foot rattler, Mosco Zamora's repeated promises to stop drinking ("No drinking. Absolutamente"), a new doctor who brings a woman back from the dead, a tow-truck driver who wins the demolition derby every Saturday night, Maria Martinez's World-Famous macaroons, the worst roads in the state, and the fractured dreams of a boy who was sent to Vietnam.

This collection of short stories by Leroy V. Quintana follows Mosco Zamora, a World War II veteran, and Johnny Barros, a Vietnam veteran, through haphazard collisions of fantasy and reality in small-town New Mexico and beyond. Quintana's eloquence as a poet infuses his candid and imaginative narration of stories drawn from both his own life and the tales spun by his father-in-law, a native of Silver City, New Mexico.

Product Info

ISBN: 0806134496

ISBN-13: 9780806134499

Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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