portada New Testaments: Stories (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Dagoberto Gilb

Editorial

City Lights Books

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

160

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780872869318

Categorías

Cuentos, historias cortas

New Testaments: Stories (en Inglés)

Dagoberto Gilb (Autor) · City Lights Books · Tapa Blanda

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The lives of working class Mexican America, where everyday stories offer a portal to myth and fable."No one writes like Dagoberto Gilb! I loved these energetic, soulful, and hilarious stories that by the end had me wondering if I'd encountered the sublime on the page."--Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of Woman of LightThis collection of eleven stories is the newest installment of an ongoing, multi-volume literary documentary project, penned by one of the contemporary legends of Chicanx literature. Dagoberto Gilb's cast of characters includes a young family whose exposure to a mysterious cloud of gas alters their lives forever; a high school dropout whose choice to learn the ways of the world from the adults at work in his uncle's industrial laundry leads him into a dangerous dalliance; a former high-rise union carpenter who agrees to meet up with an eager old flame; an aging Chicano, living alone, whose children watch over him for signs of decline; and more.These are stories about working class people who come and go mostly unnoticed or ignored, whose lives are not fodder for literary tropes or cliches. They are neither heroes nor villains, just regular people with their flaws and merits, facing the challenges and questions posed by everyday life. Gilb writes in a distinctive, appealing voice, welcoming the reader in with an easy sense of familiarity, and the effect is spare on the surface, but profound. Deftly capturing the nuances of interpersonal relationships in a simple word or gesture, he peels back the surface of seemingly unremarkable encounters to reveal layers of myth and uncanny surrealism, propelled by the momentum of new, changing times.