The Line Of The Sun
  • Published:
    Apr-1991
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    304
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“A colorful, revealing portrait of Puerto Rican culture and domestic relationship” from the award-winning poet and author of An Island Like You (Publishers Weekly).
 
Set in the 1950s and 1960s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family's struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old. At the story's center is Guzmán, an almost mythic figure whose adventures and exile, salvation and return leave him a broken man but preserve his place in the heart and imagination of his niece, who is his secret biographer.
 
“Cofer . . . reveals herself to be a prose writer of evocatively lyrical authority, a novelist of historical compass and sensitivity . . . One recognizes in the rich weave and vigorous elegance of the language of The Line of the Sun a writer of authentic gifts, with a genuine and important story to tell.” -- The New York Times Book Review
 
“There is great strength in the way Cofer evokes the fierce, loving, and brave Latin spirit that is the novel's real theme.” -- Joyce Johnson, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author
 
The Line of the Sun reads like a dream, from the beautifully realized description of the deceptive Paradise Lost, to the utterly different but equally vivid world of the urban North . . . This is a splendid first novel.” -- The State (Columbia, South Carolina)
 
“The writing in this superb novel stuns and surprises at every turn. Its sensuality and imagery . . . are riveting.” -- The San Juan Star
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EDITIONS
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    • Apr-1991
    • University of Georgia Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0820313351
    • ISBN13: 9780820313351
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    • Jun-1989
    • University of Georgia Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0820311065
    • ISBN13: 9780820311067
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    • Mar-2011
    • University of Georgia Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0820340103
    • ISBN13: 9780820340104
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    • Mar-2011
    • University of Georgia Press
    • eBook (Kindle)



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