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The Rag Doll Plagues
by Alejandro Morales (1944- )
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good to fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1558850368
- ISBN 13
- 9781558850361
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
200 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition.
A mysterious plague is decimating the population of colonial Mexico. One of His Majesty's high physicians is dispatched from Spain to bring the latest advances of medical science to the backward peoples of the New World capital. Here begins the cyclical tale of man battling the unknown, of science confronting the eternally indifferent forces of nature. Morales takes us on a trip through ancient and future civilizations, through exotic but all-too-familiar cultures, to a final confrontation with out own ethics and world view. In later chapters, his colonial physician finds his successors as they once again engage in life-and-death struggles, attempting to balance their own hopes, desires and loves with the good of society and the state. Book II of the novel takes place in modern-day southern California, and Book III in a futuristic technocratic confederation known as Lamex. In the tradition of Latin American boom novelists, Alejandro Morales is one of the finest representatives of magic realism in the English language. In The Rag Doll Plagues, Morales creates a many layered fictional world, taking us on an entertaining and thought-provoking safari through lands, times, peoples and ideas never before encountered or presented in just this manner. But ultimately, this valuable trip leads us to a reacquaintance with our own society and its moral vision.
Condition: Very good to fine in a near fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L1413
- Title
- The Rag Doll Plagues
- Author
- Alejandro Morales (1944- )
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good to fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1558850368
- ISBN 13
- 9781558850361
- Publisher
- Arte Publico Press
- Place of Publication
- Houston
- Date Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 200 pages.
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Mexican Americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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