Their Dogs Came with Them - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Their Dogs Came with Them write by Helena Maria Viramontes. This book was released on 2007-04-03. Their Dogs Came with Them available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Helena Maria Viramontes brings 1960s Los Angeles to life with “terse, energetic, and vivid” (Publishers Weekly) prose in this story of a group of young Latinx women fighting to survive and thrive in a tumultuous world. Award-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena María Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.A. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel. In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young women struggle to find their way through the turbulent urban landscape of the 1960s. Androgynous Turtle is a homeless gang member. Ana devotes herself to a mentally ill brother. Ermila is a teenager poised between childhood and political consciousness. And Tranquilina, the daughter of missionaries, finds hope in faith. In prose that is potent and street tough, Viramontes has choreographed a tragic dance of death and rebirth. Julia Alvarez has called Viramontes "one of the important multicultural voices of American literature." Their Dogs Came with Them further proves the depth and talent of this essential author.
Their Dogs Came with Them
Their Dogs Came with Them - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Their Dogs Came with Them write by Helena Maria Viramontes. This book was released on 2007-04-03. Their Dogs Came with Them available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Four young women struggle with violence and poverty in East L.A., including homeless gang member Turtle; Ana, who cares for a mentally ill brother; teen victim of the hard-knock life Ermilia; and missionary's daughter Tranquilina. By the Luis Leal Award-winning author of The Moths. 20,000 first printing.
The Moths and Other Stories
The Moths and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moths and Other Stories write by Helena MarÕa Viramontes. This book was released on 1995-01-01. The Moths and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The adolescent protagonist of the title story, like other girls in this pioneering collection, rebels against her father, refusing to go to Mass. Instead, dressed in her black Easter shoes and carrying her missal and veil, she goes to her abuelitaÍs house. Her grandmother has always accepted her for who she is and has provided a safe refuge from the anger and violence at home. The eight haunting stories included in this collection explore the social, economic and cultural impositions that shape womenÍs lives. Girls on the threshold of puberty rebel against their fathers, struggle to understand their sexuality, and in two stories, deal with the ramifications of pregnancy. Other women struggle against the limitations of marriage and the Catholic religion, which seek to keep them subservient to the men in their lives. Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop as women fightwith varying degrees of successto break free from oppression. Shedding light on the complex lives and experiences of Mexican-American girls and women, this bilingual edition containing the first-ever Spanish translation of ViramontesÍ debut collection, The Moths and Other Stories, will make this landmark work available to a wider audience.
Under the Feet of Jesus
Under the Feet of Jesus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Under the Feet of Jesus write by Helena Maria Viramontes. This book was released on 1996-04-01. Under the Feet of Jesus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature “Stunning.”—Newsweek With the same audacity with which John Steinbeck wrote about migrant worker conditions in The Grapes of Wrath and T.C. Boyle in The Tortilla Curtain, Viramontes presents a moving and powerful vision of the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions in California's fields. At the center of this powerful tale is Estrella, a girl about to cross the perilous border to womanhood. What she knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the margins of society, she learns to fight back and is able to help the young farmworker she loves when his ambitions and very life are threatened in a harvest of death. Infused with the beauty of the California landscape and shifting splendors of the passing seasons juxtaposed with the bleakness of poverty, this vividly imagined novel is worthy of the people it celebrates and whose story it tells so magnificently. The simple lyrical beauty of Viramontes' prose, her haunting use of image and metaphor, and the urgency of her themes all announce Under the Feat of Jesus as a landmark work of American fiction.
Along Came a Dog
Along Came a Dog - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Along Came a Dog write by Meindert De Jong. This book was released on 1964. Along Came a Dog available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
