Ma ana Means Heaven

Informationen zum Autor 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 an MFA from Bennington College and is the author of the novel Breathing, In Dust, as well as three collections of poetry, including Natural Takeover of Small Things. Learn more at his website, www.timzhernandez.com. Klappentext 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 1940's, 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 young, aspiring writer.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Z Hernandez, Tim Z. Hernandez
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9780816533930
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3393-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Camino del Sol; Camino del Sol
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature