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The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez
In The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez, Amalia Gomez thinks she sees a large silver cross in the sky. A miraculous sign, perhaps, but one the down-to-earth Amalia does not trust. Through Amalia, we take a vivid and moving tour of the "other Hollywood," populated by working-class Mexican Americans, as John Rechy blends tough realism with religious and cultural fables to take us into the life of a Chicano family in L.A. Epic in scope and vision, The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez is classic Rechy.
Word Knowledge and Word Usage
Word storage and processing define a multi-factorial domain of scientific inquiry whose thorough investigation goes well beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplinary taxonomies, to require synergic integration of a wide range of methods, techniques and empirical and experimental findings. The present book intends to approach a few central issues concerning the organization, structure and functioning of the Mental Lexicon, by asking domain experts to look at common, central topics from complementary standpoints, and discuss the advantages of developing converging perspectives. The book will explore the connections between computational and algorithmic models of the mental lexicon, word f...
The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant
This generous collection of fifty-two stories, selected from across her prolific career by the author, includes a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art. A widely admired master of the short story, Mavis Gallant was a Canadian-born writer who lived in France and died in 2014 at the age of ninety-one. Her more than one hundred stories, most published in The New Yorker over five decades beginning in 1951, have influenced generations of writers and earned her comparisons to Anton Chekhov, Henry James, and George Eliot. She has been hailed by Michael Ondaatje as “one of the great story writers of our time.” With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves...
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Two Drops
Lucía is an artist; Cisca, a successful lawyer. Lucía is being stalked by a violent ex-boyfriend who endangers her life. Cisca gets trapped in a building collapse, and an unfamiliar sense of anguish takes hold of her. Overnight, the course of their lives changes completely, and tragedy will bring their paths together. Two Drops is a gripping, entertaining, and contemporary novel that gives its characters a voice to piece together a puzzle that readers will unravel through an intelligent, intriguing, and emotional storyline. A novel where each situation tests personal relationships, different forms of love, motherhood, the fragility of trust, but above all, the possibility of taking control of our lives and decisions to achieve happiness.
Beyond Carnaval
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