Under the Texas Sun/el Sol de Texas

Name: Under the Texas Sun/el Sol de Texas
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ISBN: 9781558854802

ISBN-10: 1558854800

ISBN-13: 9781558854802

Edition: 2007

Authors: Conrado Espinoza, Ethriam Cash Brammer, John Pluecker

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"They had just crossed the bridge into the United States. Their feet were now firmly planted on the soil that was their promised land. They had made it! Blessed be the Virgin of Guadalupe! Now they had no reason to fear the villistas, the carrancistas, the government, or the revolutionaries! Here they could find peace, work, wealth and happiness!" And so begins the story of the Garcia family, who like many of their compatriots, fled their homeland during the upheaval of the Mexican Revolution in search of a better life in the United States. Originally published in 1926 in San Antonio, Texas as El sol de Texas, the novel chronicles the struggles of two Mexican immigrant families: the Garcias…

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List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 257
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638

ETHRIAM CASH BRAMMER is a widely published poet, screenwriter and fiction writer. Brammer is the author of The Rowdy, Rowdy Ranch / Allï¿½ en El Rancho Grande (Piï¿½ata Books, 2004) and he is the translator of El sol de Texas / Under the Texas Sun (Arte Pï¿½blico Press, 2007) and Lucas Guevara (Arte Pï¿½blico Press, 2003) the first Spanish-language novel of immigration to the United States; a groundbreaking novel by Colombian ï¿½migrï¿½ Alirio Dï¿½az Guerra, originally published in 1914. He currently lives in Detroit, Michigan with his family.