Description: Further DetailsTitle: Boy Kings of TexasCondition: NewEAN: 9780762779192ISBN: 9780762779192Publisher: The Lyons PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/03/2012Item Weight: 28gAuthor: Domingo MartinezLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A MemoirISBN-10: 0762779195Description: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTLyrical and gritty, this authentic coming-of-age story about a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas, insightfully illuminates a little-understood corner of America. Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he struggles to make sense of the violent and the ugly, along with the beautiful and the loving, in a Texas border town in the 1980s. Partly a reflection on the culture of machismo and partly an exploration of the author’s boyhood spent in his sister’s hand-me-down clothes, this book delves into the enduring, complex bond between Martinez and his deeply flawed but fiercely protective older brother, Daniel. It features a cast of memorable characters, including his gun-hoarding former farmhand, Gramma, and “the Mimis”— two of his older sisters who for a short, glorious time manage to transform themselves from poor Latina adolescents into upper-class white girls. Martinez provides a glimpse into a society where children are traded like commerce, physical altercations routinely solve problems, drugs are rampant, sex is often crude, and people depend on the family witch doctor for advice. Charming, painful, and enlightening, this book examines the traumas and pleasures of growing up in South Texas and the often terrible consequences when different cultures collide on the banks of a dying river.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: BiographyItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 13mmRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Boy Kings of Texas
Title: Boy Kings of Texas
EAN: 9780762779192
ISBN: 9780762779192
Release Date: 07/03/2012
Release Year: 2012
Subtitle: A Memoir
ISBN-10: 0762779195
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Book Title: Boy Kings of Texas
Number of Pages: 456 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
Topic: Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Personal Memoirs, General, Literary
Publication Year: 2012
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 1 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Domingo Martinez
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
