Tqs publications (24 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. With exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling, this coming of age classic follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs in family, religion, and other aspects of his Chicano culture. Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past-a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world.and will nurture the birth of his soul. The winner of the Pen Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel Alburquerque, Rudolfo Anaya's rich and compassionate writing about the Mexican American experience has helped cement him as the father of Chicano literature in English.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. With exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling, this coming of age classic follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs in family, religion, and other aspects of his Chicano culture. Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past-a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world.and will nurture the birth of his soul. The winner of the Pen Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel Alburquerque, Rudolfo Anaya's rich and compassionate writing about the Mexican American experience has helped cement him as the father of Chicano literature in English.…

Paperback. Condición: Fair. With exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling, this coming of age classic follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs in family, religion, and other aspects of his Chicano culture. Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past-a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world.and will nurture the birth of his soul. The winner of the Pen Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel Alburquerque, Rudolfo Anaya's rich and compassionate writing about the Mexican American experience has helped cement him as the father of Chicano literature in English.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. With exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling, this coming of age classic follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs in family, religion, and other aspects of his Chicano culture. Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past-a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world.and will nurture the birth of his soul. The winner of the Pen Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel Alburquerque, Rudolfo Anaya's rich and compassionate writing about the Mexican American experience has helped cement him as the father of Chicano literature in English.…

Paperback. Condición: Fair. With exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling, this coming of age classic follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs in family, religion, and other aspects of his Chicano culture. Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past-a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world.and will nurture the birth of his soul. The winner of the Pen Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel Alburquerque, Rudolfo Anaya's rich and compassionate writing about the Mexican American experience has helped cement him as the father of Chicano literature in English.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. With exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling, this coming of age classic follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs in family, religion, and other aspects of his Chicano culture. Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past-a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world.and will nurture the birth of his soul. The winner of the Pen Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel Alburquerque, Rudolfo Anaya's rich and compassionate writing about the Mexican American experience has helped cement him as the father of Chicano literature in English.…

Condición: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 174 Pages. Book has marks and the interior text pages are near flawless. A native of New Mexico. enjoys an international reputation as an author. Among his writings is the best-selling novel Bless Me Ultima as well as essays. articles. reviews and short stories. More recently. the creative impulse has led Mr. Anaya into television writing with a screenplay. as well as a fun-length drama.· He has lectured at many universities. By Presidential invitation, he read from his works at the White House during the National Salute to American Poets and Writers in 1980. Contents in Ten Stories: The Silence of the Llano, The Road to Platero, The Place of the Swallows, Salomon's Story, The Apple Orchard, The Christmas Play, EI Velorio, A Story, B. Traven is Alive and Well in Cuernavaca, and The Village Which the Gods Painted Yellow.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good.

Paperback. 144p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

Paperback. 256p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed soft-cover first edition with author's photo on cover has minor shelf-wear, tight, bright, and unmarked. Inscribed legibly and diagonally on flyleaf, 'For [name] -- A loyal fan from the past -- Gratefully Al Martinez 6/13/03'. Rectangle of flyleaf slightly discolored from folded Al Martinez newspaper column, also signed.…

Paperback. 236p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Autobiography of the Mexico-born California professor who founded Quinto del Sol.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDFirst edition. Printer's bookplate front free endpaper else very good. *.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Fourth Printing. 248 pages. January 1975 Edition. English edition however the 22 chapters are numbered in Spanish. Cover price $3.75. Some cover edge and spine wear which allows some white to show through the black covers. Owner's label and initial on front endpaper. Tight, square book. Anaya was the winner of the Premio Quinto Sol national Chicano literary award and is one of today's foremost Hispanic writers. A classic tale of Northern New Mexico family life. Bless Me, Ultima reflects the deep love and respect with which the author has approached the people about who he writes. He shares and respects the collective intellectual resorvoir that is manifest in his knowledge of a people and their relationships to the cosmos and its forces. It is only with this deep respect for a people that Anaya has been able to create in literary form a person such as the Curandera Ultima, la Grande. Anaya is the winner of the Presidential Medal for the Arts in 2002. About writing this novel the author said writing is not easy. It is a lonely and oftentimes unappreciated endeavor. He is completely self-taught having never taken a writing course. He says you just have to sit down and write, wirte, write, and write . hasta que te lleva la madre, y las almorranas. Presently (1972) he is teaching in the Albuquerque Public Schools. Martinez, Dennis - (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. . Satisfaction 100% guaranteed.

softcover. Condición: Collectible; Like New. First Edition; First Printing. SIGNED and warmly inscribed on the front endpaper by Al Martinez. ; Tight, clean and crisp. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. In excellent condition. As New. Signed.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Gd. condition - Chicano Literature . (HA4). Book.

272p., illus., 8.5x11 inches, revised and expanded second edition, very good paperback. Mexican and Mexican American history, with considerable material on the farmworkers, by the Los Angeles educator.

Soft cover. Condición: Very good. No jacket. Back cover is lightly scuffed. Light ink marks on fore edge of text block, not visible on pages. Pages are clean and unmarked.

Condición: New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back.

paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.