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A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son

Audiobook
Fiction: General
Unabridged   6 hour(s)
Publication date: 02/16/2021


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A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son

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Digital Download ISBN:9781696601511

Summary

With echoes of Dreiser's American Tragedy and Fitzgerald's Gatsby, Sergio Troncoso tells his luminous stories through the lens of an exile adrift in the twenty-first century.

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Product Description

How does a Mexican-American, the son of poor immigrants, leave his border home and move to the heart of gringo America? How does he adapt to the worlds of wealth, elite universities, the rush and power of New York City? How does he make peace with a stern old-fashioned father who has only known hard field labor his whole life? With echoes of Dreiser's American Tragedy and Fitzgerald's Gatsby, Troncoso tells his luminous stories through the lens of an exile adrift in the twenty-first century, his characters suffering from the loss of culture and language, the loss of roots and home as they adapt to the glittering promises of new worlds which ultimately seem so empty.

Reviews/Praise

"Troncoso's sharp-edged stories speak to the difficult lives of those who, as he writes, are born behind in a race they must run all the same." -Kirkus Reviews

"An outstanding collection of connected short stories uniquely reflecting life along the troubled Texas-Mexico border." -Lone Star Literary Life

Author Bio

Sergio Troncoso is the award-winning author of The Last Tortilla and Other Stories, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, and the novels The Nature of Truth and From This Wicked Patch of Dust. He has taught at the Yale Writers' Workshop for many years.