He Walked in and Sat Down and Other Stories

by Rosaura Sánchez

Book Overview

The stories in this bilingual collection portray the everyday lives of a cross-section of Chicano men and women in the contemporary U.S. Here are workers living in the chaparral around the San Diego border with Mexico, battered wives, farmworkers, divorced women rebuilding their lives, a traveling salesman, and conflicted academics. In direct and hard-edged prose, the author gives voice to the disenfranchised and alienated. The narrative perspective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082632214X
• ISBN13: 9780826322142
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.1"