The Magic of Blood

The winner of PEN's Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award presents a lovely, heartbreaking, finely crafted collection of stories about the poor and working-class in America's Southwest. "As unexpectedly beguiling and unforgettable as the arid stretches between their settings in El Paso and Los Angeles".--Library Journal.

Summary

Dagoberto Gilb is a powerful and important new talent in American fiction. Fresh, funny, relentless, and beautifully crafted, his writing possesses that rare Chekhovian ability to perfectly capture the nuances of ordinary life and make it resonate with unexpected meaning.

Product details

• Authors: Dagoberto Gilb, Gilb Dagoberto
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.07.1994
• EAN: 9780802133991
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3399-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; USA, FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Fiction: general & literary, Father’s Day, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Multicultural, US South: West South Central States, unemployment;debt;Hispanic;drugs;humor;hunger;men