Zigzagger Stories

Name: Zigzagger Stories
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ISBN: 9780810120990

ISBN-10: 0810120992

ISBN-13: 9780810120990

Edition: 2003

Authors: Manuel Munoz

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Set mainly in California's Central Valley, Manuel Muntilde;oz's first collection of stories goes beyond the traditional family myths and narratives of Chicano literature and explores, instead, the constant struggle of characters against their physical and personal surroundings. Usually depicted as the lush and green world of rural quiet and tranquility, the Valley becomes the backdrop for the difficulties these characters confront as they try to maintain hope and independence in the face of isolation. In the title story, a teenage boy learns the consequences of succumbing to the lure of a town outsider; in "Campo," a young farm worker frantically attempts to hide his supervision of a…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 11/26/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Manuel Mun~oz's short story collection, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, was a finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship and the prestigious Whiting Award, and is currently teaching creative writing at the University of Arizona in Tucson.



Acknowledgments


Anchored


Zigzagger


The Third Myth


Tiburon


Museo de Bellas Artes


The Unimportant Lila Parr


Swallow


No Blood


Campo


The Wooden Boat


Loco


By the Time You Get There, by the Time You Get Back


Anchorage


Astilla


Waiting to Be Dangerous


Not Nevada


Fotito


Waiting to Be Dangerous


Zapatos


Good as Yesterday


Everything the White Boy Told You


The Harbor of Hands


Hombres


Skyshot


Teatro Japones


Monkey, Si


Clima