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Genre/Form: | short stories Short stories Fiction Nouvelles Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Troncoso, Sergio, 1961- Last tortilla & other stories. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1999 (OCoLC)607249869 |
Material Type: | Fiction, Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sergio Troncoso |
ISBN: | 0816519609 9780816519606 0816519617 9780816519613 |
OCLC Number: | 40573449 |
Description: | x, 220 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction / by Ilan Stavans -- Angie Luna -- A rock trying to be a stone -- Espíritu Santo -- Remembering possibilities -- The snake -- Time magician -- The abuelita -- The gardener -- The last tortilla -- Punching chickens -- Day of the dead -- My life in the city -- Acknowledgments -- About the author. |
Series Title: | Camino del sol. |
Other Titles: | Last tortilla and other stories Last tortilla |
Responsibility: | Sergio Troncoso ; with an introduction by Ilan Stavans. |
More information: |
Abstract:
An anthology of stories on Mexican-Americans. One deals with the gulf between Anglo and Latin cultures, another is a romance between an older woman and a younger man, a third is on a boy's satisfaction with a job well done.

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- El Paso (Tex.) -- Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
- Mexican Americans -- Fiction.
- Mexican Americans -- Texas -- El Paso -- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- New York (N.Y) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
- El Paso (Texas) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
- El Paso (Texas) -- Social life and customes -- Fiction.
- Américains d'origine mexicaine -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
- Mexican Americans.
- New York (State) -- New York.
- Texas -- El Paso.
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