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Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories
Katherine Vaz
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Description for Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories
Paperback. From the threat of a serial killer as the background for a young girl's first brush with death to the fallout of a modern-day visitation from the Virgin Mary; from an AIDS-stricken squatter refusing to vacate an empty Lisbon home to a mother's yearlong struggle with the death of her daughter, this book includes stories that make their world ours. Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. Num Pages: 168 pages, 14 photos, 7 figures. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 212.
The stories in this prize-winning collection evoke a complete world, one so richly imagined and finely realized that the stories themselves are not so much read as experienced. The world of these stories is Portuguese-American, redolent of incense and spices, resonant with ritual and prayer, immersed in the California culture of freeway and commerce. Packed with lyrical prose and vivid detail, acclaimed writer Katherine Vaz conjures a captivating blend of Old World heritage and New World culture to explore the links between families, friends, strangers, and their world.
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The stories in this prize-winning collection evoke a complete world, one so richly imagined and finely realized that the stories themselves are not so much read as experienced. The world of these stories is Portuguese-American, redolent of incense and spices, resonant with ritual and prayer, immersed in the California culture of freeway and commerce. Packed with lyrical prose and vivid detail, acclaimed writer Katherine Vaz conjures a captivating blend of Old World heritage and New World culture to explore the links between families, friends, strangers, and their world.
From the threat of a serial killer as the background ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Series
Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803217904
SKU
V9780803217904
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About Katherine Vaz
Katherine Vaz is a Briggs-Copeland Fellow in fiction at Harvard University. She is the author of Saudade, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection; Mariana, available in six languages and selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top 30 International Books of 1998; and Fado & Other Stories, winner of the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature ... Read more
Reviews for Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories
"Katherine Vaz is the sort of fiction writer who makes me wonder why the rest of us even bother. . . . My favorite book of Vaz's is Our Lady of the Artichokes."—Tayari Jones, New York Times "Vaz is a soulful writer who understands her protagonists' complex lives, as well as the way religious beliefs can assert themselves most powerfully after ... Read more