Last in a long line of long-suffering women, once-divorced, once-widowed Soveida Dosamantes reflects on her 30 years as a waitress at the El Farol Mexican restaurant. Looking back, she hears a rich chorus of Latino voices whose touching, funny and sage advice shows her how to celebrate her true love and her true self.
Teresina Avila is a divorced, thirty-something Chicana working in Cabritoville, New Mexico. Her lover will never leave his wife and ties Tere's heart in knots. Her diversions center around her best friend, Irma, and her membership in the Pedro Infante Fan Club. A hilarious and heartrending story about the fictions women weave to justify loving the ...
THE LAST OF THE MENU GIRLS is comprised of seven interrelated stories that, through shifting narrative voices, define the protagonist, Rocio Esquibel, as she takes stock of her family and society. An acute awareness of accent, tone and dialect enliven characters rarely depicted in fiction: janitors, gardeners and nurse's aides.
Acclaimed author/actress Denise Chavez explores the history, lore, and preparation of tacos--and other art forms--in a warm and exuberant memoir, with recipes. "Tacos are sacred to me," writes Chavez, who's set many a fictional scene in a Southwestern restaurant or around a dinner table. And here are her special recipes, including her mother's ...
American Book Award-winning author Chavez's delicious new novel features an unforgettable heroine obsessed with a legendary screen idol. Pedro Infante makes Mejicana women sigh--and gives Tere Avila the dreamy ideal against which she measures the all-too-real men in her life.
The six plays in Shattering the Myth represent something quite recent to contemporary American literature: the Hispanic female voice. The plays, written between the years 1986 and 1991, have been performed or read in theaters across the United States. Questioned in the six plays are the traditions so deeply rooted in the familial culture of which ...
Alive with the taste of tamales and the lyrical tang of the Esquibels' talk, "The Last of the Menu Girls" becomes a rich celebration of Chicano culture, and a universal story of finding one's way in the world.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Santa Fe: New Mexico Magazine, 1992.
Description: 120pp, (8x11 inches), color and b&w illustrations. Very Good in wrappers (soft cover). Light wear to covers, slightly curved along the fore-edge. Otherwise clean and tight, no internal tears or creases, no markings. This Anniversary issue includes work by Simon Ortiz, Luci Tapahonso, John Nichols, Mark Medoff, Tony Hillerman, Denise Chavez, Marc Simmons, et al. Includes a brief promotional "letter" from the publisher (Charles Hepler) on magazine letterhead, expressing his excitement about this ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Las Cruces Catholic School
Date Published: [200-? ]
Description: 46p. + color photos, spiral-bound wraps. Stories, poetry and photographs of families by the students and teachers, with an introduction by Chavez, one of the project coordinators. read more
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Anthology. With Octavia E. Butler, James Carroll, Michael Chabon, Denise Chavez, Alan Cheuse, Maxine Clair, William Kennedy,...
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Edition: Ltd. to 150 numbered copies. This copy is one of 5 copies issued
Binding: Full leather.
Publisher: Quill & Brush
Date Published: 1996
Description: Fine. Issued without dust jacket. Original work. The book condition is Fine. The dust jacket is issued without dust jacket. Issued as a fund raiser for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Signed by all the authors. read more
Description: Good. Used copy-Because of our high volume, we can not accurately describe each book, so we list the MINIMUM condition you can expect; most are better than the condition listed. read more
Description: First edition, one of only 200 copies. Fourteen original essays on the title subject, "journeys, " read at the annual PEN/Faulkner gala, October 30, 1995, by the following: Octavia E. Butler, James Carroll, Michael Chabon, Denise Chavez, Alan Cheuse, Maxine Clair, William Kennedy, Barbara Kingsolver, Kate Lehrer, Susan Minot, Walter Mosley, Toby Olson, E. Annie Proulx, and Jane Smiley. Fine in small white paperwraps printed in green and black. read more
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Hardin, Helen, Patricia Clark Smith, Barbara Mor, Pat Mora, Luci Tapahonso, Edith Clow, Caryn Ostrowe, Denise Chavez, Marta...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1982
Description: Wraps, 4to, 128 pp., b/w illus. Errata slip laid in (corrected text of Barbara Mor poem printed in full). Light dustsoiling to wrappers only. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hougton Mifflin
Date Published: 1993
Description: 32 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Large format kids book illustrated with photographs by Jim Caldwell. Dated (9.20.94) and warmly INSCRIBED by Chavez. Uncommon. read more
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Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black-Cast Posters
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John Kisch, Donald Bogle (Introduction by), Edward Mapp
