Their Dogs Came with Them by Viramontes Maria

Their Dogs Came with Them by Viramontes Maria

Award-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena Mar a 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 political consciousness. 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 called Viramontes one of the important multicultural voices of American literature. Their Dogs Came with Them further proves the depth and talent of this essential author.

Helena Marü¾™†”¼a Viramontes is the acclaimed author of The Moths and Other Stories, Under the Feet of Jesus, and Their Dogs Came with Them; and the coeditor of two collections: Chicana (W)Rites: On Word and Film and Chicana Creativity and Criticism. She is the recipient of the Luis Leal Award and the John Dos Passos Award for Literature, and her short stories and essays have been widely anthologized and adopted for classroom use and university study. Viramontes lives in Ithaca, New York, where she is a professor in the Department of English at Cornell University.

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ISBN 13	9780743287661
ISBN 10	0743287665
Title	Their Dogs Came with Them
Author	Viramontes Maria
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Atria Books
Year published	2007-04-03
Number of pages	336
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