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Bodega Dreams
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Bodega Dreams Paperback - 2000

by Quinonez, Ernesto

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Details

  • Title Bodega Dreams
  • Author Quinonez, Ernesto
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 224
  • Language EN
  • Publisher Vintage, New York
  • Date 2000-03-14
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0375705899-11-6
  • ISBN 9780375705892
  • Themes
    • Catalog Heading: Language Arts/Literature
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: Chicano
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Geographic Orientation: New York

From the publisher

Ernesto Quiñonez lives in New York City.

From the rear cover

The word is out in Spanish Harlem: Willie Bodega is king. Need college tuition for your daughter? Start-up funds for your fruit stand? Bodega can help. He gives everyone a leg up, in exchange for loyalty -- and a steady income from the drugs he pushes.

Lyric, inspired, and darkly funny, this powerful debut novel brilliantly evokes the trials of Chino, a smart, promising young man to whom Bodega turns for a favor. Chino is drawn to Bodega's street-smart idealism, but soon finds himself in over his head, navigating an underworld of switchblade tempers, turncoat morality, and murder.

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Media reviews

"Rich with eye-opening detail, [this is] a lively and entertaining work by a young writer whose talents are deserving of a wide readership."  -Oscar Hijuelos

Citations

  • Black Issues Book Review, 07/01/2000, Page 20
  • Entertainment Weekly, 04/28/2000, Page 102
  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2000, Page 142
  • Latina, 03/01/2000, Page 36
  • Library Journal, 01/01/2000, Page 162
  • New York Times, 03/12/2000, Page 11
  • Poder Hispanic, 03/01/2000, Page 66
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/17/2000, Page 42
  • School Library Journal, 09/01/2000, Page 259
  • Time, 03/27/2000, Page 98

About the author

Ernesto Quionez was born in Ecuador, but arrived to New York City he was eighteen months old and was raised in El Barrio, East Harlem. Quionez is also the author of Bodega Dreams and Chango's Fire. Quionez is an Associate Professor at Cornell University, where he teaches Creative Writing, Latino Fiction and Magical Realism, among others.

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