Name: Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and me
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Author: Jaime Manrique
ISBN: 9780299161842

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Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and me

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jaime Manrique

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.9 x 15.7 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN

0299161846

ISBN13

9780299161842

Synopsis "Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and me "

Fans of Jerry Apps will delight in his latest novel, Blue Shadows Farm, which follows the intriguing family story of three generations on a Wisconsin farm. Silas Starkweather, a Civil War veteran, is drawn to Wisconsin and homesteads 160 acres in Ames County, where he is known as the mysterious farmer forever digging holes. After years of hardship and toil, however, Silas develops a commitment to farming his land and respect for his new community. When Silas s son Abe inherits Blue Shadows Farm he chooses to keep the land out of reluctant necessity, distilling and distributing purified corn water throughout Prohibition and the Great Depression in order to stay solvent. Abe s daughter, Emma, willingly takes over the farm after her mother s death. Emma s love for this place inspires her to open the farm to school-children and families who share her respect for it. As she considers selling the land, Emma is confronted with a difficult question who, through thick and thin, will care for Blue Shadows Farm as her family has done for over a century? In the midst of a controversy that disrupts the entire community, Emma looks into her family s past to help her make crucial decisions about the future of its land. Through the story of the Starkweather family s changing fortunes, and each generation s very different relationship with the farm and the land, Blue Shadows Farm is in some ways the narrative of all farmers and the increasingly difficult challenges they face as committed stewards of the land.Finalist, General Fiction, Midwest Book Awards"

Jaime Manrique

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Poet, storyteller, and essayist, he has written his work in both Spanish and English. He received the Eduardo Cote Lamus National Poetry Award in 1975 for his first book, Los adoradores de la luna. He has published books in both Spanish and English, including El cadáver de papá (1978; Seix Barral, 2019), Notas de cine (1979), Oro colombiano (1983), Luna latina en Manhattan (1992, Seix Barral 2022), Twilight at the Equator (1997), Maricones eminentes: Arenas, Lorca, Puig y Yo (2000), Nuestras vidas son los ríos (2006; Seix Barral, 2019), El callejón de Cervantes (2012), Como esta tarde para siempre (Seix Barral, 2018) and Si me ves por el camino (Seix Barral, 2021)
Some of his poetry collections include Mi noche con Federico García Lorca (1995), Tarzán, mi cuerpo, Cristóbal Colón (2000) and El libro de los muertos (selected poems 1973-2015) (2016). In 2000, he received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and in 2007, Nuestras vidas son los ríos won the International Latino Book Award for best historical novel. The original English version of Como esta tarde para siempre was published in 2019 by Akashic Books in New York and was a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Book Award for best gay novel of the year. Currently, Manrique is a Distinguished Lecturer at City College of New York. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.

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