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8%OFFTim Z. Hernandez - Manana Means Heaven - 9780816533930 - V9780816533930
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Manana Means Heaven

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Description for Manana Means Heaven Paperback. Series: Camino del Sol. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
In this love story of impossible odds, award-winning writer Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a rich and visionary portrait of Bea Franco, the real woman behind famed American author Jack Kerouac’s “The Mexican Girl.” Set against an ominous backdrop of California in the 1940s, deep in the agricultural heartland of the Great Central Valley, Mañana Means Heaven reveals the desperate circumstances that lead a married woman to an illicit affair with an aspiring young writer traveling across the United States. When they meet, Franco is a migrant farmworker with two children and a failing marriage, living with poverty, violence, and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Arizona Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Camino del Sol
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816533930
SKU
V9780816533930
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About Tim Z. Hernandez
Tim Z. Hernandez is a poet, novelist, and performance artist whose awards include the 2006 American Book Award, the 2010 Premio Aztlán Prize in Fiction, and the James Duval Phelan Award from the San Francisco Foundation. In 2011 the Poetry Society of America named him one of sixteen New American Poets. He holds a BA from Naropa University and ... Read more

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