LA CHIQUILLA (Coleccion de Escritores Mexicanos)

Mexico: Editorial Porrua, 1946. Tercéra edición . Soft Cover/Library Boards. Very Good/None as Issued. EX-LIB. UNCIRCULATED Copy. No loan pocket. Text/one-word marginalia to pg 349 (last numbered pg) else NEW, showing discoloration. Softcover encased in red library boards. Both the 1907 first edition and the 1908 second contained abundant errors, from pagination to substance"; corrected in this 1946 3rd Edition. The Kid (or, The Girl) is the 2nd novel written in 1907 by the Mexican writer Carlos González Peña (1885 - 1955). Set in early 20th century, poverty stricken neighborhood of Mexico City. Protagonist Antoñita Fernández, is a seamstress laboring long hours to sustain the family after her father's untimely death. Her aged mother, has withdrawn into religion; older brother Alberto pursues but night life; younger teenage sister Lena despises work; then, and there is Estéfana, the spinster that's been in the family forever. Chronicle of Antoñita's deterioration over a year, complicated by her falling in love but to have her lover seduce sister Lena ... Antoñita falls ill, Estéfana rallies and? Through the voice of a poet Urízar, the author wonders if life, like a young girl, is but composed of eternal smiles be essentially superficial? Powerful tale. 349 + xi pages, and Indice.