Award Name ALA Notable Books Award category Fiction Terrific stories.
Just about perfect ( Entertainment Weekly ): Brownsville is the collection that established Oscar Casares as one of the leading voices in the literature of the modern Southwest.
At the country's edge, on the Mexican border, Brownsville, Texas, is a town like many others.
It is a place where people work hard to create better lives for their children, where people bear grudges against their neighbors, where love blossoms only to fade, and where the only real certainty is that life holds surprises.
In his sparkling debut, Oscar Casares creates a cast of unforgettable characters confronting everyday possibilities and contradictions: Diego, an eleven-year-old whose job at a fireworks stand teaches him a lesson in defiance; Bony, a young man whose discovery of a monkey's head on his lawn drives a wedge between him and his parents; Lola, whose stolen bowling ball offers an unlikely chance for change.
The achievement of Brownsville lies in its remarkably honest portrayal of these lives -- the lives of people whose dreams and yearnings and regrets are at once unique and universal.
Marvelous.
Brownsville resembles early Steinbeck work more than anything else.
--Carolyn See, Washington Post About the Author Oscar Casares gave up a successful career in advertising to pursue his dream of becoming a writer.
He received an MFA at Iowa and his stories have appeared in the Iowa Review , Colorado Review , Northwest Review , and Threepenny Review .
He is the author of the short story collection Brownsville and lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife.
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Back Bay Books este o amprentă a Little, Brown and Company, o editură deținută de Hachette Book Group.
Back Bay Books se concentrează în primul rând pe publicarea de ediții broșate ale cărților literare de ficțiune și non-ficțiune.
Amprenta este cunoscută pentru că lansează broșuri de înaltă calitate, atât cu titluri contemporane, cât și clasice, incluzând adesea lucrări care au fost publicate anterior pe copertă cartonată de Little, Brown și alte tipărituri din cadrul Hachette Book Group.
Back Bay Books își propune să facă literatura mai accesibilă pentru cititori, oferind ediții broșate la prețuri accesibile de romane, memorii, biografii și alte genuri apreciate.
Unii autori cunoscuți ale căror lucrări au fost publicate sub amprenta Back Bay Books includ, printre alții, Donna Tartt, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Sedaris, David Foster Wallace și Malcolm Gladwell.
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Back Bay Books Brownsville, paperback/oscar casares
