“It rings true. [Villasenor’s] sentences and his characters have the smell of rich earth and honest sweat about them.” —The San Francisco Examiner “Macho! is poetic in its devotion to realistic detail and classic sparseness of style.” —Los Angeles Times/5(65). Macho! Is very, very fine literature! Villaseñor accomplishes in pages what some writers can't accomplish in a , with writing so visual that you will see the scenes play out right before your eyes/5(54). · Raw, powerful, poetic, and heartbreaking, Macho! brings to life the brutality of migrant labor, Cesar Chavez’s efforts to unionize workers, and a vivid portrayal of the immigrant experience through the eyes of a brave young man who bids goodbye to everything he knows to follow his www.doorway.ru: Atria Books/Beyond Words.
Victor Villaseñor is the author of the nonfiction books Wild Steps of Heaven and Jury: The People vs. Juan Corona. He has written several screenplays, including the award-winning The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. Villasenor lives on the North Country San Diego ranch where he grew up. Victor Villaseñor is an acclaimed, Mexican-American writer best known for the New York Times bestselling novel Rain of Gold. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and Crazy Loco Love was chosen as the Best Biography in English at the International Latino Book Awards. Macho! Victor Villaseñor is an American writer, best known for the national bestselling book Rain of Gold. Villaseñor's works are often taught in American schools. He went on to write Thirteen Senses: A Memoir (), a continuation of Rain of Gold. His book Burro Genius: A Memoir () describes his life.
Macho! by Victor Villaseñor, () was written almost fifty years ago, but many of its pages, could be drawn from today. From the mountains and the plains of Mexico, for generations, men --and now women and children-- have trekked hundreds and thousands of miles to work in American agriculture. “It rings true. [Villasenor’s] sentences and his characters have the smell of rich earth and honest sweat about them.” —The San Francisco Examiner “Macho! is poetic in its devotion to realistic detail and classic sparseness of style.” —Los Angeles Times. Macho! by Victor Villasenor - From a pioneer of modern U.S. Hispanic literature, and the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Loco Love and Rain of Gol.
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