Dominoes & Other Stories from the Puerto Rican

By Jack Agueros and Jack Agüeros

Book Overview

Dominoes & Other Stories from the Puerto Rican, the long-awaited debut collection of fiction of playwright and poet Jack Ag eros, is a unique window on the untold stories of the lives of Puerto-Rican Americans.

With a phenomenal richness of detail, Jack Ag eros brings the reality of Puerto Rican experience in New York fully to life. In stories that span the decades of the 1940s through 1990s he recreates the barrio in all its multi-faceted immensity, with its candy stores, plaster saints, numbers collectors, tropical fruit vendors and sidewalk games of dominoes, its knife fights and junkies' raps and its succesful stories of craftsmen and entrepeneurs.

These stories convey hard, sometimes brutal, often bittersweet experiences, but throughout, Jack Ag eros writes with artistry and unyielding compassion that gloriously affirm quiet moments of grace and triumph in common and ordinary struggles--the real stuff of literature.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188068411X
• ISBN13: 9781880684115
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Curbstone Press
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.6"

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REVIEW QUOTES

"...A report from the guts and heart of a submerged people, an addition to an outstanding...literary tradition:the boricua procession." --Ilan Stavans, New York Newsday"DOMINOES is a clear and hopeful note in a city's chorus of harsh realities." --Mary Talbot, New York Daily News"Throughout the collection, Agüeros evokes thoughtful, empathetic responses in the reader, and that is the best any writer can give you." --Frank Caso, Hartford Courant