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9780826360038 Academic Inspection Copy

No More Bingo, Comadre!

Stories
  • ISBN-13: 9780826360038
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
  • By Nasario Garcia
  • Price: AUD $46.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 30/11/2018
  • Format: Paperback (203.00mm X 140.00mm) 184 pages Weight: 280g
  • Categories: Short stories [FYB]
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It takes all kinds to populate Northern New Mexico, and this book has every one: from gypsies and gamblers to ranchers and criminals. Noted author Nasario Garcia introduces us to some of these people and the challenges they face. The title character, Adelfa, flirts with the glamour of casinos and finds herself addicted to gambling. Sam ""Spam"" Austin, an inmate serving a long sentence for murder, is paroled, attends medical school, and becomes a doctor. The affable grandfather in ""Yo Quiero Hacer un Lie 'Way,"" a hard-working and honorable rancher, stuns the proprietor of a mortuary with his request to put a coffin on layaway.
Folklorist and native New Mexican Nasario Garcia has published numerous books about Hispanic folklore and the oral history of northern New Mexico, including Hoe, Heaven, and Hell: My Boyhood in Rural New Mexico (UNM Press) and Grandpa Lolo's Navajo Saddle Blanket: La tilma de Abuelito Lolo (UNM Press). He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
A sensitive, humorous Northern New Mexico folkloric treasure. It is a view of the evolving world of New Mexico Hispanics by a master storyteller who experienced all of the losses, gains, and compromises made to accommodate that transition."" - Esther V. Cordova-May, author of Antes: Stories from the Past in Cuba, New Mexico, 1769-1949
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