Synopses & Reviews
The winner of the Hudson Prize, this collection of stories, mainly set in the Southwest, digs deep into the lives of its characters. Daniel Chacon’s writing is very lucid and dips into Carveresque plain talk at times, but he isn’t afraid to use pretty descriptions as well.
Daniel Chacon is author of Chicano Chicanery as well as various short stories and plays. His fiction has appeared in several journals, including ZYZZYVA, New England Review, and Callaloo, and his plays have been produced in California and Oregon. His first novel, and the shadows took him, was published by Washington Square Press.
Review
The two dozen stories in Chacón's "Unending Rooms" reveal the sharp insight and cutting humor of a consummate writer who is obsessed by the power of fiction and the way we weave it -- purposefully or inadvertently -- into our lives. Daniel Olivas, El Paso Times
Synopsis
Chacon's stark and clever tales of cowboys and suburbanites are full of contradiction and hope.
Synopsis
Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. The winner of the Hudson Prize, this collection of stories, mainly set in the Southwest, digs deep into the lives of its characters. Daniel Chacón's writing is very lucid and dips into Carveresque plain talk at times, but he isn't afraid to use pretty descriptions as well.
About the Author
Daniel Chacón is the author of three books: Chicano Chicanery, and the shadows took him, and the collection of stories, UNENDING ROOMS (Black Lawrence Press, 2008). He is co-editor of The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: The Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga. He co-hosts Words on a Wire, a radio show about books on KTEP.org, Public Radio of the Southwest. His latest book is Hotel Juárez: Stories, Rooms and Loops (2013).