The Magic of Blood

by Dagoberto Gilb

Overview

Dagoberto Gilb is a powerful and important new talent in American fiction. Fresh, funny, relentless, beautifully crafted, his writing possesses that rare Chekhovian ability to perfectly capture the nuances of ordinary life–and make it resonate with unexpected meaning. The Magic of Blood is his unforgettable first book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802133991
Publisher:	Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date:	06/04/1994
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	453,187
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Editorial Reviews

Acclaimed Chicano writer Gilb's collection of short stories set in the American Southwest won the PEN Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award. $35,000 ad/promo. Author tour. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

These plain-spoken stories take readers to construction sites and cheap rentals where chronically underemployed, necessarily mobile, struggling yet optimistic Texas Mexicans survive in an ungenerous world. Skilled laborers and tenuous families come alive in the undramatic settings and seethe with the blood and passion that transform ordinary events into the stuff of stories. In ``Nancy Flores,'' a breathtaking depiction of first love flows into the enigmatically sordid fall of a youthful hero. ``Winners on the Pass Line'' pairs the fates of two restless visitors to Las Vegas who connect briefly and profoundly. Gilb's lesser stories meander into facile or abrupt endings, but the best are as unexpectedly beguiling and unforgettable as the arid stretches between their settings in El Paso and Los Angeles. Recommended for public libraries and area collections.-- Janet Ingraham, Worthington P.L., Ohio

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