HOUSE OF HOUSES. [Signed Copy]
Language: English
Published by Beacon Press, Boston, Mass., 1997
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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This work is a family memoir told in the voices of the author's ancestors. It is about oppression and survival and sometimes triumph. l From her ancestors' harrowing crossing of the Rio Grande to the racism Mora's parents faced growing up in Texas, the struggles of a single family are transformed by the magic and healing each member offers the others in ritual, language, stories, and recipes. Photographs are included. This copy is clean and solid. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, inscribed on the title page.
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- Title
- HOUSE OF HOUSES. [Signed Copy]
- Author
- Mora, Pat
- Publisher
- Beacon Press, Boston, Mass.
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Cloth
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807072001
- ISBN 13
- 9780807072004
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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Mora has created an ingenious structure for these recollections of her extended family, of their lives and the tales they share about the family s history. Woven in with these memories are recipes, fragments of songs and poetry, folk remedies, and jokes, all of the small matters that most reveal a family s identity. In a language deftly mingling the natural cadences of speech and precise, poetic imagery, Mora believably summons up both a group of tough, loving, idiosyncratic survivors and a vivid, detailed portrait of life in the Southwest in [the last] century. Kirkus Reviews"
"Poet Mora's complex and dramatic family history comprises more than personal reminiscences: it also embraces resonant aspects of Mexican American history. Mora recounts her family's traumatic exodus from Mexico to escape the violence of Pancho Villa and his forces and their struggles to begin new lives in another country. To anchor her psychologically rich, dramatic, sometimes funny, often touching multigenerational tale, Mora uses the image of a house--the house of houses--during a single year, a fruitful metaphor that allows her to dwell on the bright beauty of flowers, birds, and trees, emblems of the loving legacy of her nurturing family." --Booklist
"Mora has created an ingenious structure for these recollections of her extended family, of their lives and the tales they share about the family's history. Woven in with these memories are recipes, fragments of songs and poetry, folk remedies, and jokes, all of the small matters that most reveal a family's identity. In a language deftly mingling the natural cadences of speech and precise, poetic imagery, Mora believably summons up both a group of tough, loving, idiosyncratic survivors and a vivid, detailed portrait of life in the Southwest in [the last] century." --Kirkus Reviews
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