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THE MADONNAS OF ECHO PARK
de Skyhorse, Brando
- Usado
- as new
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1439170800
- ISBN 13
- 9781439170809
- Librería
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 'We slipped into this country like thieves, onto the land that once was ours.' With these words, spoken by an illegal Mexican day laborer,THE MADONNAS OF ECHO PARK takes us into the unseen world of Los Angeles, following the men and women who cook the meals, clean the homes, and struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream. When a dozen or so girls and mothers gather on an Echo Park street corner to act out a scene from a Madonna music video, they find themselves caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting. In the aftermath, Aurora Esperanza grows distant from her mother, Felicia, who as a housekeeper in the Hollywood Hills establishes a unique relationship with a detached housewife. The Esperanzas' shifting lives connect with those of various members of their neighborhood. A day laborer trolls the streets for work with men half his age and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; a religious hypocrite gets her comeuppance when she meets the Virgin Mary at a bus stop on Sunset Boulevard; a typical bus route turns violent when cultures and egos collide in the night, with devastating results; and Aurora goes on a journey through her gentrified childhood neighborhood in a quest to discover her own history and her place in the land that all Mexican Americans dream of, "the land that belongs to us again." As new,first edition, first printng in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not remaindermared or price-clipped] MLBS1
Sinopsis
The Madonnas of Echo Park is both a grand mural of a Los Angeles neighborhood and an intimate glimpse into the lives of the men and women who struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream. Each chapter summons a different voiceâÈ'poetic, fierce, comic. We meet Hector, a day laborer who trolls the streets for work and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; his ex-wife Felicia, who narrowly survives a shooting and lands a cleaning job in a Hollywood Hills house as desolate as its owner; and young Aurora, who journeys through her now gentrified childhood neighborhood to discover her own history and her place in the land that all Mexican-Americans dream of, âÈêthe land that belongs to us again.âÈë Reminiscent of Luis Alberto Urrea and Dinaw Mengestu, The Madonnas of Echo Park is a brilliant and genuinely fresh view of American life.
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- Librería
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 019485
- Título
- THE MADONNAS OF ECHO PARK
- Autor
- Skyhorse, Brando
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo As New
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1439170800
- ISBN 13
- 9781439170809
- Editorial
- Simon & Schuster
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, N. Y., U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2010
- Páginas
- 224
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Product_type
- 2
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