America Is in the Heart A Personal History

Name: America Is in the Heart A Personal History
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ISBN: 9780295993539

ISBN-10: 0295993537

ISBN-13: 9780295993539

Edition: 2nd 2014 (Revised)

Authors: Carlos Bulosan, Marilyn C. Alquizola, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

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First published in 1946, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West."America came to him in a public ward in the Los Angeles County Hospital while around him men died gasping for their last bit of air, and he learned that while America could be cruel it could also be immeasurably kind. . . . For Carlos Bulosan no lifetime could be long enough in which to explain to America that no man could destroy his faith in it again. He wanted to contribute something toward the final fulfillment of America. So he…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 4/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English