| He Walked in and Sat Down and Other Stories Contributor(s): Sánchez, Rosaura (Author), Pita, Beatrice (Translator) |
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ISBN: 082632214X ISBN-13: 9780826322142 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99050426 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.59" W x 8.07" (0.64 lbs) 254 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Ethnic Orientation - Chicano - Geographic Orientation - California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The stories in this bilingual collection portray the everyday lives of a cross-section of Chicano men and women in the contemporary U.S. Here are workers living in the chaparral around the San Diego border with Mexico, battered wives, farmworkers, divorced women rebuilding their lives, a traveling salesman, and conflicted academics. In direct and hard-edged prose, the author gives voice to the disenfranchised and alienated. The narrative perspective changes from story to story, portraying the experiences of what could become classic characters in Chicana fiction. "S nchez brilliantly and sensitively portrays the hard life of undocumented Mexican men and women working in the United States. She is a masterful storyteller able to weave suspense from the first to the last sentence. Written with the style reminiscent of Tomas Rivera and Juan Rulfo, each narrative conveys a message difficult to forget."--Mar a Herrera Sobek, University of California, Santa Barbara "S nchez is a storyteller, interweaving voices at once unheard or unspoken. The characters in these stories range from the disenfranchised to Chicano/a academics, but all struggle to have their stories told."--Helena Viramontes |