Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
by Santos, John Phillip
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0670868086
- ISBN 13
- 9780670868087
- Seller
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Finalist for the National Book Award! In this beautifully wrought memoir, award-winning writer John Philip Santos weaves together dream fragments, family remembrances, and Chicano mythology, reaching back into time and place to blend the story of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire people. The story unfolds through a pageant of unforgettable family figures: from Madrina--touched with epilepsy and prophecy ever since, as a girl, she saw a dying soul leave its body--to Teofilo, who was kidnapped as an infant and raised by the Kikapu Indians of Northern Mexico. At the heart of the book is Santos' search for the meaning of his grandfather's suicide in San Antonio, Texas, in 1939. Part treasury of the elders, part elegy, part personal odyssey, this is an immigration tale and a haunting family story that offers a rich, magical view of Mexican-American culture.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rose's Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017019
- Title
- Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
- Author
- Santos, John Phillip
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670868086
- ISBN 13
- 9780670868087
- Publisher
- Viking Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- MEXICAN AMERICANS TEXAS BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY GENERAL SOCIAL SCIENCE ETHNOLOGY
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Mexico;
Terms of Sale
Rose's Books, IOBA
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