Hard language : short stories /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, [2000] |
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| Summary: | Winner of the University of California at Irvine Chicano/Latino Literary Prize, "Hard Language" is filled with hard-to-forget characters. Among his other startling snapshots, Padilla captures the day his character's family got together to tear apart old Aunt Eufrasia's house: "It is like the christening of a ship, my mother said as the pickaxe swung..". |
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| Physical Description: | 164 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 1558852980 |
| Author Notes: | (Bowker Author Biography) |