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The Day They Took My Uncle and Other Stories
Lionel G. Garcia
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Description for The Day They Took My Uncle and Other Stories
Hardcover. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 549.
Lionel Garcia believes that no one should read a short story and be the same person afterward. The fifteen stories in this collection have that effect. They will affect each reader differently but leave none untouched.
These stories focus on South Texas’ Hispanic culture most frequently—but not always. It is a world Garcia knows well, and he portrays its complexities with a clearly realistic and often bemused eye.
In some stories he sees his subjects with a gentle vision that stops just short of sentimentality—in “Alone,” Constancia, lonely after years of divorce, nearly throws herself at the plumber, ... Read more
Lionel Garcia believes that no one should read a short story and be the same person afterward. The fifteen stories in this collection have that effect. They will affect each reader differently but leave none untouched.
These stories focus on South Texas’ Hispanic culture most frequently—but not always. It is a world Garcia knows well, and he portrays its complexities with a clearly realistic and often bemused eye.
In some stories he sees his subjects with a gentle vision that stops just short of sentimentality—in “Alone,” Constancia, lonely after years of divorce, nearly throws herself at the plumber, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875652351
SKU
V9780875652351
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