Carry Me Like Water - Brossura

Saenz, Benjamin Alire

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060831332 ISBN 13: 9780060831332

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2005

Riassunto

The yuppie lifestyle of Helen and Eddie Marsh strongly conflicts with the struggles of Helen's impoverished deaf-mute brother Diego, until she develops the ability to have out-of-body experiences. Reissue.

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L'autore:

Benjamin Alire Sįenz is the author of In Perfect Light, Carry Me Like Water, and House of Forgetting, as well as the author of several children’s books. He won the American Book Award for his collection of poems Calendar of Dust. Sįenz is the chair of the creative writing department at the University of Texas-El Paso.

Product Description:

This immensely moving novel confronts divisions of race, gender, and class, fusing together the stories of people who come to recognize one another from former lives they didn't know existed -- or that they tried to forget. Diego, a deaf-mute, is barely surviving on the border in El Paso, Texas. Diego's sister, Helen, who lives with her husband in the posh suburbs of San Francisco, long ago abandoned both her brother and her El Paso roots. Helen's best friend, Lizzie, a nurse in an AIDS ward, begins to uncover her own buried past after a mystical encounter with a patient. With Carry Me Like Water, Benjamin Alire Saenz unfolds a beautiful story about hope and forgiveness, unexpected reunions, an expanded definition of family, and, ultimately, what happens when the disparate worlds of pain and privilege collide.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060831332
• ISBN 13: 9780060831332
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 503