Through a Portagee Gate

Name: Through a Portagee Gate
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ISBN: 9780972256148

ISBN-10: 0972256148

ISBN-13: 9780972256148

Edition: 2004

Authors: Charles Reis Felix

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Through a Portagee Gate is both an autobiography and a biography. It gives a remarkably honest self-portrait and an endearing tribute to the author's father, a Portuguese immigrant cobbler who came to America in 1915. The narrative reveals a deep desire to escape the confines of the immigrant, ethnic world, while also acknowledging a keen nostalgia about one's past, a need to remember and pay tribute to those who come before us. Felix accomplishes this through unforgettable dialogue and vivid characterizations worthy of Steinbeck, a prose, sometimes poignant, at other times hilarious, that strips human experience to its bare and powerful elements.

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Tagus Press
Publication date: 11/30/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 484
Size: 8.75" wide x 5.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Preface


Prologue


I Come to California


Every Foul and Stagnant Pool


A Portagee Gate


No Taste for Air


"Them Portagees Are Wrecking That House"


The Inalienable Right of Revulsion


Senhor Fragoza


The Dermatologist's Report


"I Don't want a Portagee in the Family"


Better Far Better


"What Kind of a Name Is That Anyway?"


The "Mudsill" Analogy


Senhor Oliveira


A Money Test


Fidel and His Father


A National Calamity


PA


"I Should Have Voted for Hoover"


Pissing in Brockton


The Greatest Story Ever Told


Sir Master


Attaching the Dog


Chatting


The Only Portagee in Philadelphia


Mrs. Maud D'Haze


Podubnia


His Roll


At the Shop


The Cuckoo Man


Tickets


Old Ribeiro


The Bank


Sunday Dinner


At the Shop Again


Doctors


The Christmas Tree


Counting Money


The White Gloves and Brown Coat


Insurance


Eggs


His Father


The Fourth of July


Take a Guess


Locking Up, Saturday Night


Work


Giving to the House


No More


Among the Dahlias


Coca-Cola


The Americans


Cabral the Pharmacist


Sam


Polocks and Other People


Hannibal and His Elephants


Deliverance


My Blue Suit


Class


''If I Can Give You a Push Up, I Will Be Glad To Do It"


College


My Career


Ann Arbor


John the Beggar


Income Tax


Razor Blades


Coffin Avenue


Nothing Stays the Same


His Father Again


"Do You Still Remember Setubal, Mary?"


Gone


Lines


Like a Song