I Want to Buy a Vowel: A Novel of Illegal Alienation - Softcover

Welter, John

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9780425160817: I Want to Buy a Vowel: A Novel of Illegal Alienation

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ISBN 10: 0425160815 ISBN 13: 9780425160817

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, 1997

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Guatemalan immigrant Alfredo Santayana does not know much English except for the phrase "I want to buy a vowel," which earns him great wealth in America, but Alfredo has much more to learn, in a touching novel about the immigrant experience. Reprint.

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Eva Galt, a young minister's child, begins asking hard questions about God and her parents' divorce, while illegal immigrant Alfredo Santayana questions the American dream, and when their paths cross, the result is a satire on small-town media culture run amok.

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