Gritos - Essays

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Summary

When he first started writing, Dagoberto Gilb was struggling to survive as a journeyman high-rise carpenter. Years later, he has won widespread acclaim as a crucial and compelling voice in contemporary American letters. Tackling everything from cockfighting to Cormac McCarthy, Gritos collects Gilb's essays and his popular commentaries for NPR's Fresh Air, offering a startling portrait of an artist-and a Mexican-American- working to find his place in both the cloistered literary world and the world at large, to say nothing of his strange and beloved borderland of Texas.

Product details

• Authors: Dagoberto Gilb, Gilb Dagoberto
• Assisted by: Cesar A. Martin (Illustration)
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2004
• EAN: 9780802141279
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-4127-9
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Texas, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, Relating to migrant groups / communities, c 1990 to c 1999, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Multicultural