An edition of So Far from God (1993)

So far from God

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An edition of So Far from God (1993)

So far from God

a novel

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Tome is a small, outwardly sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico. In Ana Castillo's hands, though, it stands wondrously revealed as a place of marvels, teeming with life and with all manner of collisions: the past with the present, the real with the supernatural, the comic with the horrific, the Native American with the Hispano with the Anglo, the women with the men. With the talkative, intimate voice and the stylistic and narrative freedom of a Southwestern Cervantes, the author relates the story of two crowded decades in the life of a Chicana family. The mother, Sofia, holds things together in the years following the disappearance of her husband Domingo (he of the Clark Gable mustache and the uncontrollable gambling habit). Then there are the daughters: Esperanza, Chicana campus radical turned career woman and television news reporter; Caridad, a nurse who dulls the pain of being jilted with nightly bouts of alcohol and anonymous sex. Fe, the prim and proper bank employee in constant quest for the good life; and la Loca, whose "death" and subsequent resurrection at age three have left her strange and saintly and attuned to higher spiritual frequencies. Ana Castillo's triumph in So Far from God is to weave the mundane and the miraculous, the modern and the archaic, and the tragic and the humorous into one rich novelistic fabric. Hers is a homegrown magical realism, leavened with sly commentary. Controlled anger, and a distinct feminist point of view of the world and the cosmos. Of all the marvels in this book, and there are many, the greatest is the achievement of its creator. via Worldcat.org

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Publisher
Plume
Language
English
Pages
251

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Cover of: So Far from God
So Far from God: A Novel
June 2005, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
Cover of: So Far from God
So Far from God: A Novel
June 2005, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
Cover of: So Far from God
So Far from God
May 1994, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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Cover of: So far from God
So far from God: a novel
1994, Plume
in English
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So Far from God
August 1994, Tandem Library, Turtleback
School & Library Binding in English
Cover of: So Far From God
So Far From God
June 10, 1994, Interlink Publishing+group Inc
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Cover of: So far from God
So far from God: a novel
1993, W.W. Norton
in English
Cover of: So Far From God
So Far From God
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New York

Edition Notes

Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3553.A8135 S65 1994, PS3553.A8135S65 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
251 p. ;
Number of pages
251

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1433574M
Internet Archive
sofarfromgodn00cast
ISBN 10
0452272092
LCCN
93045382
Library Thing
51001
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
1290994

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