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  • BEFORE THE END, AFTER THE BEGINNING
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    BEFORE THE END, AFTER THE BEGINNING
    DAGOBERTO GILB
    Ten "stark, realistic" short stories from the PEN/Hemingway Award–winning author 'told in mostly gritty matter-of-fact prose" ( The Boston Globe).   Dagoberto Gilb wrote most of the stories in Before the End, After the Beginning while he recovered from a stroke he suffered in 2009. The result is a powerful and triumphant volume that tackles common themes of identity, mortality,...

    $169.00

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  • THE FLOWERS
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    THE FLOWERS
    DAGOBERTO GILB
    Dagoberto Gilb is "one of the most powerful writers in his generation, and The Flowers is perhaps his best book . . . Not to be missed" (Larry McMurtry).   Sonny Bravo is a sensitive, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who lives with his vivacious mother. But when she marries an Okie building contractor, they are uprooted to a small apartment building in a city where prejudice is...

    $212.00

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  • WOODCUTS OF WOMEN
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    WOODCUTS OF WOMEN
    DAGOBERTO GILB
    These ten stories of "intensity and bravado" by the acclaimed Chicano author explore love, lust, and longing among people struggling to find their way (Jean Thompson, The New York Times Book Review).   Featuring characters of Mexican American heritage, each of these haunting stories is crafted with Gilb's quintessentially spare yet evocative language and explores the lives of m...

    $149.00

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  • THE LAST KNOWN RESIDENCE OF MICKEY ACUÑA
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    THE LAST KNOWN RESIDENCE OF MICKEY ACUÑA
    DAGOBERTO GILB
    A working-class vato looks for love, lust, and meaning in the Southwest in this "highly evocative" New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year ( Publishers Weekly).   Mickey Acuña is a man suspended between a shrouded past and an uncertain future. Emerging from the landscape of the Southwest, buffeted by life and licking his wounds, he moves into a YMCA to wait for a ch...

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  • GRITOS
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    GRITOS
    DAGOBERTO GILB
    A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist: A wide-ranging collection of essays on the Mexican American experience by the acclaimed Chicano author.   Once a struggling journeyman carpenter, Dagoberto Gilb has won widespread acclaim as a crucial and compelling voice in contemporary American letters. Known for his novels and short stories, he has also been a prolific essayist ...

    $159.00

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