Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation - Hardcover

Santos, John Phillip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670868086 ISBN 13: 9780670868087

Publisher: Viking, 1999

Synopsis

Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation tells of growing up in San Antonio, Texas, in an in-between place and time -- shifting back and forth across the Mexican border, between present realities and ancient cultures. Interweaving family remembrance, pre-Columbian mythology, and the histories of Texas and Mexico, it blends the story of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire people. Part treasury of the elders, part elegy, part personal odyssey, part Book of the Dead, its tales are of a fragile family lineage that spans borders and rivers and decades.

About this title

About the Author:

John Phillip Santos, born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, is the first Mexican American Rhodes Scholar whose awards include the Academy of American Poets' Prize at Notre Dame and the Oxford Prize for fiction. His articles on Latino culture have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and the San Antonio Express-News. Writer and producer of more than forty television documentaries for CBS-TV and PBS-TV, two of them Emmy nominees, he lives in New York City.

Synopsis:

The Mexican American traces his family's history from Spain and pre-Columbian North America through contemporary Mexico and Texas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0670868086
• ISBN 13: 9780670868087
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304