The Iguana Killer: Twelve Stories of the Heart

By Alberto Alvaro Ríos

Book Overview

First published in 1984, this award-winning book, considered a classic of Chicano fiction, is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alberto Alvaro R os is Regents Professor at Arizona State University, Tempe. ACCLAIM "Colorful, hurtful, as real as legend, this book provides a wonderful new access to a large but mostly unperceived culture and will loom large in any approach to the emerging art of the Mexican worldview in English. R os is an artist."-- Choice "The Iguana Killer is not the Chicano version of Catcher in the Rye--but it is close."-- San Antonio Express-News "In his cool, unassertive way, R os taps many moods, keeping a controlled but flexible rein on the emotions of his characters and their experiences. These are not Anglo stories or Mexican stories but the unique amalgam we call Chicano--the real thing at last."-- John Barkham Reviews

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082631922X
• ISBN13: 9780826319227
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great stories that truly show the bi-cultural perspective

In Iguana Killer there are several stories of young boys and the growing up they have to do usually without too much financial security and the constant challenges that they meet in a bilingual as well as a bi-cultural setting. Rios has a gift for interpreting what goes on in young boys minds, and the stories themselves make for very good reading.