| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"These retablos are true stories, but they're filled with lies. The core events are real, they happened, but the images on the peripheries which were faint to my view have been elaborated on ..."--Page) |
| Summary |
"Seminal moments, rites of passage, crystalline vignettes--a memoir about growing up brown at the U.S./Mexico border"-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
On my "Retablos" -- Retablos -- Way over -- In the shimmer -- Red -- Blood and Coke -- Consuelo -- Keening -- My friend Memín -- El Judío -- El Mar -- Thieves like us -- My monsters -- Ben -- Our other house -- Saturday -- Mexican I needed -- La Migra -- Little woods -- Cotton -- La Llorona -- Wild kingdom -- Our Blackie -- El Mero Mero -- Nothing happens -- El Kitty -- Locura -- Jeep in the water -- Skinny brown kid doesn't know shit -- Siren songs -- First day -- World goes away -- Bad blood -- Penitente -- Quince -- Sister -- Fred's herb -- Jesus in our mouths -- Cisco -- Demon -- Mexican apology -- Runner -- La Mariscal -- Tumble-down -- A wall between -- El Segundo -- Want -- Runner II -- Neto -- My right foot -- Runner III. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Solis, Octavio -- Childhood and youth.
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Mexican American authors -- Biography.
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Mexican American authors. |
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Authors, American -- Biography. |
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Dramatists, American -- Biography.
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Authors, American -- Biography.
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Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions.
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Dramatists, American. |
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DRAMA -- American. |
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Authors, American. |
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Social conditions. |
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North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. |
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
Stories from a life lived along the border |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Solis, Octavio. Retablos. San Francisco : City Lights Books, 2018 9780872867864 (DLC) 2018023444 |
| ISBN |
9780872867888 electronic book |
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0872867889 electronic book |
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9780872867864 paperback |
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0872867862 paperback |
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