Dagoberto Gilb

• Jul-1994
• / General Fiction
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Dagoberto Gilb is a powerful and important new talent in American fiction. Fresh, funny, relentless, and beautifully crafted, his writing possesses that rare Chekhovian ability to perfectly capture the nuances of ordinary life and make it resonate wi...

• Oct-1995
• / Literary
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A working-class vato looks for love, lust, and meaning in the Southwest in this “highly evocative” New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year (Publishers Weekly).   Mickey Acuña is a man suspended between a shrouded past and a...

• Feb-2002
• / General Fiction
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These ten stories of “intensity and bravado” by the acclaimed Chicano author explore love, lust, and longing among people struggling to find their way (Jean Thompson, The New York Times Book Review).   Featuring characters of Mexican Americ...

• Dec-2007
• / Literary
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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist: A wide-ranging collection of essays on the Mexican American experience by the acclaimed Chicano author.   Once a struggling journeyman carpenter, Dagoberto Gilb has won widespread acclaim as a cruci...

• Feb-2008
• / Literary
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Dagoberto Gilb is “one of the most powerful writers in his generation, and The Flowers is perhaps his best book . . . Not to be missed” (Larry McMurtry).   Sonny Bravo is a sensitive, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who lives...

• Apr-2008
• / General Fiction
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Once an independent nation, Texas has always been proud of its unique culture. The literature of the Lone Star State has long attracted local, regional, and national audiences and critics, yet the state's Mexican American voices have yet to receiv...

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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Before the End, After the Beginning is a personal and honest collection of ten exquisite stories from Dagoberto Gilb. The pieces come in the wake of a stroke Gilb suffered at his home in Austin, Texas, in 2009, and a majority of the stories were writ...

• Oct-2024
• / General Fiction
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The lives of working class Mexican America, where everyday stories offer a portal to myth and fable. This collection of eleven stories is the newest installment of an ongoing, multi-volume literary documentary project, penned by one of the contempora...