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" La promesa and other stories / "
Leroy V. Quintana.
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BL
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949498
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b703868
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| Main Entry
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Quintana, Leroy.
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| Title & Author
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La promesa and other stories /\ Leroy V. Quintana.
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| Publication Statement
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Norman :: University of Oklahoma Press,, ©2002.
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| Series Statement
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Chicana & Chicano visions of the Américas ;; v. 1
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158 pages ;; 22 cm.
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| ISBN
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0806134496
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: 9780806134499
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| Contents
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Mosco: The rosary -- Cuáles Burros? -- Mosco Zamora and the sixteen-foot rattler -- La promesa -- La tortilla chamuscada de la la la Chevalier -- The election -- El doctor de la mente, a drop of ETOH, and etc., etc. -- Tia Adelaida goes to San Antone; Johnny: Tacks -- Freedom of speech and the Halloween party -- (Fig) Newton, Bernoulli, and the pink (and green and yellow and even blue) elephants -- La matanza -- And on all your children -- The man on Jesus street-dreaming -- Breathing them.
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"Welcome to the other San Miguel, a fictional town in New Mexico. It's the sort of town that has survived a burning rosary, the face of Jesus appearing on a wall, a sixteen-foot rattler, Mosco Zamora's repeated promises to stop drinking ("No drinking, Absolutamente"), a new doctor who brings a woman back from the dead, a tow-truck driver who wins the demolition derby every Saturday night, Maria Martinez's world-famous macaroons, the worst roads in the state, and the fractured dreams of a boy who was sent to Vietnam." "This collection of short stories by Leroy V. Quintana follows Mosco Zamora, a World War II veteran, and Johnny Barros, a Vietnam veteran, through haphazard collisions of fantasy and reality in small-town New Mexico and beyond. Quintana's eloquence as a poet infuses his narration of stories drawn from both his own life and the tales spun by his father-in-law, a native of Silver City, New Mexico."--Jacket.
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Vietnam War, (1961-1975)
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Hispanic Americans, Fiction.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975-- New Mexico, Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945-- New Mexico, Fiction.
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Hispanic Americans.
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Manners and customs.
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New Mexico, Social life and customs, Fiction.
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New Mexico.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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PS3567.U365P76 2002
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