Dominoes & other stories from the Puerto Rican /
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| Author / Creator: | Agüeros, Jack, 1934-2014. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press ; East Haven, CT : Distributed in the U.S. by InBook, 1993. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (149 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Latino literature. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12469720 |
| Summary: | Dominoes & Other Stories from the Puerto Rican, the long-awaited debut collection of fiction from playwright and poet Jack Agüeros, is a unique window on the untold stories of the lives of Puerto-Rican Americans. <br> <br> <br> <br> With a phenomenal richness of detail, Jack Agüeros brings the reality of Puerto Rican experience in New York fully to life. In stories that span the decades of the 1940s through 1990s he recreates the barrio in all its multi-faceted immensity, with its candy stores, plaster saints, numbers collectors, tropical fruit vendors and sidewalk games of dominoes, its knife fights and junkies' raps and its succesful stories of craftsmen and entrepeneurs.<br> <br> <br> <br> These stories convey hard, sometimes brutal, often bittersweet experiences, but throughout, Jack Agüeros writes with artistry and unyielding compassion that gloriously affirm quiet moments of grace and triumph in common and ordinary struggles--the real stuff of literature. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (149 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| ISBN: | 188068411X 9781880684115 |
| Access: | Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff. |