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    The Year of the Flood

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Bless Me, Ultima

by Rudolfo A. Anaya

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ISBN13: 9780446600255
ISBN10: 0446600253
Condition: Standard
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Exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English. Indeed, Anaya's tales fairly shimmer with the haunting beauty and richness of his culture. The winner of the Pen Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel Alburquerque, Anaya is perhaps best loved for his classic bestseller, Bless Me, Ultima... Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past-a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world...and will nurture the birth of his soul.

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A masterpiece of Hispanic literature from "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" (Denver Post). This is the involving story of Antonio, a boy facing the conflicts in his life with the help of Ultima, a curandera who cures with herbs and magic. At each turn of Tony's life, she is there to nurture his soul.
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tkeyah613, April 22, 2008 (view all comments by tkeyah613)
i have to read it for school and i cant aford to but it but i heard a lot of good things about it and would love to read it
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Lucy Little, December 9, 2007 (view all comments by Lucy Little)
Anaya has shared a true gift in this story. Antonio is a young boy who develops a relationship with Ultima, a curandera who comes to live with his family. He is witness to multiple tragedies at a young age, but learns how to face them with the strength of Ultima. He is conflicted throughout by the Catholic God and the powers of nature through which Ultima works. I like that the author wove in World War II to place the story in time and to establish the fact that it takes place on American soil.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780446600255
Author:
Anaya, Rudolfo A.
Publisher:
Warner Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Mexican americans
Subject:
Healers
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Mexican American children.
Subject:
Healers -- New Mexico -- Fiction.
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Subject:
New mexico
Edition Number:
Warner Books ed.
Series Volume:
95-05
Publication Date:
April 1994
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Pages:
262
Dimensions:
686x417x75 30
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