| The Holy Spirit of My Uncle's: Cojones Contributor(s): Villatoro, Marcos McPeek (Author) |
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ISBN: 1558852832 ISBN-13: 9781558852839 Publisher: Arte Publico Press OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1999 Annotation: The problem: It's the summer of 1978 and sixteen-year-old Antonio "Tony" McCaugh has tried to commit suicide. The cure: Rather than hire an expensive psychologist, Tony's mother flies him from his Appalachian father's house to San Francisco so Tony can spend the summer with his womanizing, pot-smoking, peyote-eating Uncle Juan "Jack" Villalobos. Hanging out with Jack, she believes, is guaranteed to shake Tony out of his depression. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99022554 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.53" W x 8.44" (0.85 lbs) 298 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1970's - Ethnic Orientation - Latino - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fiction. Latino/a Studies. It's the spring of 1978 and sixteen-year-old Antonio (Tony) McCaugh has just tried slashing his wrists. His mother arranges for her despondent son to spend the summer with his Uncle Jack in California as a sure-fire plan for lifting Tony out of his despair. The plan works, but at the same time Tony begins to discover that there is more to his uncle than the macho clichA a¬A of family legends. El Savador from 1870 though the 1930s is the setting for this sprawling populist mural of a novel ... Imaginative testimony on behalf of an entire people -- Publishers Weekly. |