The House of Broken Angels
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (517 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073P5D4WQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 115 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Among the many pleasuresis its big-hearted view of the United States as a foreign country. Praise for THE HOUSE OF BROKEN ANGELS:"This, the most personal book by the great American novelist Luis Alberto Urrea, is one of the most vivid and engrossing family epics of the last twenty years."Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The CirclePraise for Luis Urrea:"All 13 stories are realistic and unsparing, as unflinching and hard-hitting as they are beautiful.
. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Luis Alberto Urrea is the bestselling author of The Water Museum, The Devil's Highway, The Hummingbird's Daughter, Into the Beautiful North, and Queen of America, among others. He has won the Lannan Literary Award, the Pacific Rim
There will be two family affairs in one weekend: a farewell double-header. This story of the De La Cruzes is the story of what it means to be a Mexican in America, to have lived two lives across one border. Above all, this finely wrought portrait of a deeply complex family and the America they have come to call home is Urrea at his purest and best. Destined to sit alongside other classic immigrant novels, THE HOUSE OF BROKEN ANGELS is a sprawling and epic family saga helmed by patriarch Big Angel. Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, THE HOUSE OF BROKEN ANGELS cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank. . The definitive Mexican-American immigrant story, a sprawling and deeply felt portrait of a Mexican-American family occasioned by the impending loss of its patriarch, from one of the country's most beloved authors.Prizewinning and bestselling writer Luis Urrea has written his Mexican coming-to-America story and his masterpiece. It is a tale of the ravaging power of death to shore up the bits of life you have forgotten, whether by choice or not. Among the attendants is his half-brother and namesake, Little Angel, who comes face to face with the siblings with whom he shared a father but not, as the weekend proceeds to remind him, a life. The novel gathers together the entire De La Cruz clan, as they meet for the