Good Works of Ayela Linde : A Novel in Stories

Name: Good Works of Ayela Linde : A Novel in Stories
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ISBN: 9781559708074

ISBN-10: 1559708077

ISBN-13: 9781559708074

Edition: 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Charlotte Forbes

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The linked stories that make up this spare and beautifully written novel follow the life of Ayela, the illegitimate daughter of a Mexican dressmaker, born in 1933 in the Texas border town of Santa Rosalia. Raised by her mother and superstitious grandmother (thought to be a witch by the townsfolk), Ayela is breathtakingly striking, aloof, fearful, flamboyant, and headstrong, and her stories are told by those who know her, or think they do: a girlhood friend, her housekeeper, the pork butcher, members of the altar guild, a travel agent, her daughter-in-law, and others. The stories begin when Ayela is 17 and move through her marriage to an idealistic Bostonian, held captive in town by her…

Book details

Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Publication date: 5/10/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Parasols	p. 1
Flowers at your grave	p. 11
A cow in the rain	p. 23
The pork butcher and the rich man's wife	p. 29
Where God put us	p. 41
Scenes from the world	p. 49
The grand opening	p. 59
The waning moon of Aurelio Amengar	p. 93
The gift of softened eyes	p. 107
The wooden swan	p. 115
As told by Rosalba Vilar	p. 135
Victim	p. 145
The church at Del Rio	p. 161
That old lady	p. 177
The marvelous yellow cage	p. 189
Dreaming of you	p. 209
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