Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
$44.33
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2000
Summary
Finalist for the National Book Award!
In this beautifully wrought memoir, award-winning writer John Philip Santos weaves together dream fragments, family remembrances, and Chicano mythology, reaching back into time and place to blend the story of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire people.
The story unfolds through a pageant of unforgettable family figures: from Madrina–touched with epilepsy and prophecy ever since, as a girl, she saw a dying soul leave its body–to T…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140292022 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140292020 |
| Author: | John Phillip Santos |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2000 |
| Weight: | 241g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
John Phillip Santos
John Phillip Santos, born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, is the first Mexican American Rhodes Scholar whose awards include the Academy of American Poets’ Prize at Notre Dame and the Oxford Prize for fiction. His articles on Latino culture have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and the San Antonio Express-News. Writer and producer of more than forty television documentaries for CBS-TV and PBS-TV, two of them Emmy nominees, he lives in New York City.
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