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Bezig met laden... Mañana Means Heaven (Camino del Sol)door Tim Z. Hernandez
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Beautiful and heartbreaking. Tim has somehow inhaled Kerouac's writing style and sometimes I almost got confused as to who was writing what. But Tim is far more understanding of a young woman's heart and soul than Jack ever was, and I loved that new dimension - looking at "Jackie" through a young mother's 1947 eyes. Beautifully written, full of truth, full of America in the longago, full of what it was like to be Hispanic in California in 1947, it's a short novel, but it's a big novel. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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In this love story of impossible odds, award-winning writer Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a rich and visionary portrait of Bea Franco, the real woman behind famed American author Jack Kerouac’s “The Mexican Girl.” Set against an ominous backdrop of California in the 1940s, deep in the agricultural heartland of the Great Central Valley, Mañana Means Heaven reveals the desperate circumstances that lead a married woman to an illicit affair with an aspiring young writer traveling across the United States. When they meet, Franco is a migrant farmworker with two children and a failing marriage, living with poverty, violence, and the looming threat of deportation, while the “college boy” yearns to one day make a name for himself in the writing world. The significance of their romance poses vastly different possibilities and consequences.nbsp; nbsp; Mañana Means Heaven deftly combines fact and fiction to pull back the veil on one of literature’s most mysterious and evocative characters. Inspired by Franco’s love letters to Kerouac and Hernandez’s interviews with Franco, now in her nineties and living in relative obscurity, the novel brings this lost gem of a story out of the shadows and into the spotlight. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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