Portuguese in the Americas – serie
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7 produkter
Distant Music
Av Julian Silva
Häftad, 2007
379 kr
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Two discretely shaped yet interdependent narratives creating a family saga from the viewpoints of both maternal and paternal lines (a difficult and rarely successful strategy for fiction) comprise this large and capacious novel. Distant Music begins in the nineteenth-century and extends well into …
Move Over, Scopes
Av Julian Silva
Häftad, 2011
249 kr
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Move Over, Scopes and Other Writings both extends Julian Silva's richly-textured portrait of Portuguese-American community life in his narrative diptych, Distant Music , and enlarges it to include subjects as varied as backbiting London theatre has-beens (""The Waxworks Show""), a final pilgrimage …
Marriage of the Portuguese
Av Sam Pereira
Häftad, 2012
184 kr
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In this newly expanded edition of The Marriage of the Portuguese , first published in 1978, Sam Pereira encounters the world as it exists now, three decades later, and weaves poetry around his signature realization of sometimes painful, sometimes joyous experience. Often cynical and at times …
Sixty Acres and a Barn
A Novel
Av Alfred Lewis, Frank F. Sousa
Häftad, 2012
249 kr
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Sixty Acres and a Barn tells the captivating coming-of-age story of Luis Sarmento, an immigrant from the Azores who finds in America tolerance, prosperity, and emotional fulfillment. This fascinating slice of immigrant life in California dairy farming explores in lyrical, realistic, and insightful …
Land of Milk and Money
A Novel
Häftad, 2012
377 kr
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Land of Milk and Money tells the story of the Francisco family, Portuguese immigrants who build a prosperous California dairy farm. With their growing success, plans to return to the Old Country fall by the wayside, and the legacy of the older generation becomes a source of contention among …
