Borderlands: Short Fictions
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (779 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802126448 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Going south. said I was sucked in from the start. I don't have the book in front of me now, it is I believe I was sucked in from the start Going south. I don't have the book in front of me now, it is I believe 4 short stories maybe 5 I was sucked in from the start, I just really felt I was there and experienced it in real time, the last story in the book. don't read it before bed it stayed with me long after the lights went out. amazing.that does not normally happen to me. like never. short stories maybe 5 I was sucked in from the start, I just really felt I was there and experienced it in real time, the last story in the book. don't read it before bed it stayed with me long after the lights went out. amazing.that does not normally happen to me. like never. Amazon Customer said I enjoyed the setting. I enjoyed the setting, because I grew up colse to the border, and the first story was great. I lost interest after that.. A Customer said Near the borders of America, Savagery reins Supreme.. This book is a collection of eight short stories, some are better than others but not one is bad. The first story is about a rich Mexican landlord (hacienda owner) of "noble" decesent from Spanish ancestors. He is not the worst guy in the world and he loves his wife and children. However, he has no social conciounse and does not question his elite and privliged status which comes at the expense of so many other people. He takes his blessed life for granted, thinkin
Dolores (dolar, pain in Spanish) experiences a lifetime of pain before her 17th birthday. The stories that follow are brutal, stark and horrifying; in "Runaway Horses," a just-widowed man is driven mad when he attempts to deliver just punishment to his wife's rapist and murderer. Blake writes with a fearless precision and a ruthless sensibility, his prose is spare and tough, and his descriptions detailed and cinematic. When she finally bolts free, the cycle of victimization expands into a bleak and unforgettable chronicle of dead-end options. In another narrative, an illegal immigrant falls in love with an ex-prostitute
In the following eight haunting stories, we meet Don Sebastián Cabrillo Mayor Cortés y Mendoza, a powerful landowner reduced to howling at the moon from behind the bars of a mental institution; an illegal immigrant in Florida who must reckon with his emotional turmoil after being robbed by a fellow Mexican; a Texas woman orphaned by disease and desertion, making her way into a violent world of men; and many more who pass through the shadows of the borderlands. The scrublands of South Texas, the warm coastland of the Gulf of Mexico, a cinderblock flophouse near the produce fields of South Florida: all are borde