Their Dogs Came with Them A Novel

Name: Their Dogs Came with Them A Novel
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ISBN: 9781416588344

ISBN-10: 1416588345

ISBN-13: 9781416588344

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Authors: Helena Marï¿½a Viramontes

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Award-winning author ofUnder the Feet of Jesus, Helena María Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.A. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel. In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young women struggle to find their way through the turbulent urban landscape of the 1960s. Androgynous Turtle is a homeless gang member. Ana devotes herself to a mentally ill brother. Ermila is a teenager poised between childhood and politicalconsciousness. And Tranquilina, the daughter of missionaries, finds hope in faith. In prose that is potent and street tough, Viramontes has choreographed a tragic dance of death and rebirth.Julia Alvarez has…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Publication date: 10/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English