The Magic of Blood
by Dagoberto Gilb
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In this dynamic collection of short stories, including eight from Winners on the Pass Line (1985), Dagoberto Gilb captures the texture of the Southwest's working class in clear, ironic, and bitingly realistic fiction about regular people going about their complex lives.Tags
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I read a few of these stories back in 2005 and then got to meet him a year later. From the few that I read, this book is really great. I'll give a better review when I read the rest of it.
Dagoberto Gilb has a unique style of writing the makes his work classic Hispanic-American literature.
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Fiction about the Working Class
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Pen/Faulkner Winners and Finalists
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Dagoberto Gilb is an author and professor at Southwest Texas State University. He was schooled at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his M. A. He contributes to Fresh Air, a National Public Radio program. Gilb was the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing show more Fellowship. He was awarded the 1994 Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for the short story collection, The Magic Blood. Gilb's novel, The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuna, was named a Notable Book in the New York Times. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The magic of blood
- First words*
- Vor etwa fünf Wochen kam ich mit dem Bus hier an, ich hatte noch 50 Dollar und wollte einen Job.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Sie wollte noch viel länger bleiben.
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