| Blood Fugues Contributor(s): Vega Yunque, Edgardo (Author) |
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ISBN: 006074278X ISBN-13: 9780060742782 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $15.19 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2006 Annotation: Kenny's mother was Frances Boyle, an Irish girl from the Bronx; his father, Tommy Romero, was a Puerto Rican born in East Harlem. The firstborn and favorite of this Dublin--San Juan union bore his mother's easy-smiling Irish eyes and his father's air of quiet mystery. His summer begins like others before: leaving the cradle of his Williamsburg home to work on a pastoral upstate farm. But soon he makes choices that bring him into direct conflict with nature and challenge his more primitive instincts for survival, while at home his family grapples with their tangled pasts and the consequences of decades of deceptions. In sparse and elegant prose, Edgardo Vega Yunque renders a tight, beautifully constructed novel about two families coming to terms with their stormy pasts and their hopes for the future. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Small Town & Rural - Fiction | Family Life - Siblings - Fiction | Hispanic & Latino |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.02" W x 7.78" (0.49 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Irish - Geographic Orientation - New York - Sex & Gender - Masculine - Topical - Family |
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| Publisher Description: Kenny's mother was Frances Boyle, an Irish girl from the Bronx; his father, Tommy Romero, was a Puerto Rican born in East Harlem. The firstborn and favorite of this Dublin--San Juan union bore his mother's easy-smiling Irish eyes and his father's air of quiet mystery. His summer begins like others before: leaving the cradle of his Williamsburg home to work on a pastoral upstate farm. But soon he makes choices that bring him into direct conflict with nature and challenge his more primitive instincts for survival, while at home his family grapples with their tangled pasts and the consequences of decades of deceptions. In sparse and elegant prose, Edgardo Vega Yunqu renders a tight, beautifully constructed novel about two families coming to terms with their stormy pasts and their hopes for the future. |
Contributor Bio(s): Vega Yunque, Edgardo: - Edgardo Vega-Yunque is the author of the critically acclaimed novel No Matter How Much You Promise. . . . His stories have been adapted for the stage and anthologized internationally. He was born in Puerto Rico and lived in Brooklyn, New York until his death in 2008. |