Sixty Acres and a Barn

A western, agrarian novel that conjures the world of the small dairy farms of California and the Portuguese immigrants who worked them

About the author

ALFRED LEWIS (1902-1977), born on the mid-Atlantic island of Flores, immigrated to California in 1922, studied law, and eventually served as a municipal judge in the San Joaquin Valley. He is the author of Home Is an Island. FRANK F. SOUSA received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the Director of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture and Professor of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. DONALD WARRIN specializes in the history and literature of Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigrants in the United States at the Regional Oral History Office at The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Summary

A western, agrarian novel that conjures the world of the small dairy farms of California and the Portuguese immigrants who worked them

Product details

• Authors: Alfred Lewis, Alfred/ Sousa Lewis
• Assisted by: Frank Sousa (Editor), Frank F. Sousa (Editor)
• Publisher: University pr of new england
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 22
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.04.2012
• EAN: 9781933227399
• ISBN: 978-1-933227-39-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Portuguese in the Americas; Portuguese in the Americas
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature