The Flowers

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Author:

Gilb, Dagoberto

Narrated by:

De Ocampo, Ramon

ISBN:

978-1-4361-4604-3

Publication Date:

Sep 2008

Publisher:

Recorded Books, Inc.

Book Format:

Downloadable audio file

List Price:

USD $29.99

Book Description:

Dagoberto Gilb has won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Sonny Bravo is a young Mexican American struggling to become a man while living with his mom and step-father in a small urban community known as the Flowers. There the assorted residents teach Sonny life lessons, even as racial tensions simmer in the city around them. "Hilarious and thought provoking ..."-Publishers Weekly

Author Biography

Gilb, Dagoberto (Author)

Dagoberto Gilb is an author and professor at Southwest Texas State University. He was schooled at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his M. A. He contributes to Fresh Air, a National Public Radio program.

Gilb was the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. He was awarded the 1994 Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for the short story collection, The Magic Blood. Gilb's novel, The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuna, was named a Notable Book in the New York Times.

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