San Juan

"An elegant pirouette through civic as well as personal history."-Antonio Skarmeta, from the foreword "Detailed with a vibrant nostalgia . . . . This book is filled with insights into the dramatic changes he experienced as Puerto Rico moved from an agrarian society to an industrialized modern economy."-Gustavo A. Mellander, "Hispanic Outlook" "To read "San Juan: Memoir of a City" is to trace and retrace the contours of a lived space, of neighborhoods populated by fascinating real and imaginary characters, of a centuries-old history radically transformed in the last sixty to seventy years."-Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, University of Michigan " An elegant pirouette through civic as well as personal history." -- Antonio Ska rmeta, from the foreword " To read "San Juan: Memoir of a City" is to trace and retrace the contours of a lived space, of neighborhoods populated by fascinating real and imaginary characters, of a centuries-old history radically transformed in the last sixty to seventy years." -- Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, University of Michigan "An elegant pirouette through civic as well as personal history."--Antonio Skarmeta, from the foreword "To read "San Juan: Memoir of a City" is to trace and retrace the contours of a lived space, of neighborhoods populated by fascinating real and imaginary characters, of a centuries-old history radically transformed in the last sixty to seventy years." --Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, University of Michigan

Edgardo Rodriguez Julia teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Puerto Rico. Among his many books are La renuncia del heroe Baltasar (1974, translated into English in 1997 as The Renunciation), El entierro de Cortijo (1983, published in a bilingual edition in 2004 as Cortijo's Wake), La noche oscura del Nino Aviles (1984), and Sol de medianoche (1999). Peter Grandbois is assistant professor of English at California State University, Sacramento.