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The Flowers - by Dagoberto Gilb (Paperback)

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Highlights

  • Sonny Bravo is a tender, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who is living with his vivacious mother in a large city where intense prejudice is not just white against black, but also brown.
  • Author(s): Dagoberto Gilb
  • 256 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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About the Book



Award-winning author Gilb takes on the voice of a Chicano teenager looking at manhood, in his latest novel about hate, pain, anger, and a love that transcends age and time.



Book Synopsis



Sonny Bravo is a tender, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who is living with his vivacious mother in a large city where intense prejudice is not just white against black, but also brown. When Sonny's mother, Silvia, suddenly marries an Okie building contractor named Cloyd Longpre, they are uprooted to a small apartment building, Los Flores. As Sonny sweeps its sidewalks, he meets his neighbors and becomes ensnared in their lives: Cindy, an eighteen-year-old druggie who is married and bored; Nica, a cloistered Mexican girl who cares for her infant brother but who is never allowed to leave their unit. The other tenants range from Pink, an albino black man who sells old cars in front of the building, to Bud, a muscled-up construction worker who hates blacks and Mexicans, even while he's married to a Mexican-American woman. Dagoberto Gilb, in arguably his most powerful work yet, has written an inspiring novel about hate, pain, anger, and love that transcends age, race, and time. Gilb's novel displays the fearlessness and wit that have helped make him one of this country's most authentic and original voices.



Review Quotes




"Dagoberto Gilb is an important voice in American fiction. These stories of working-class, low-rent lives illuminated by the small pleasures of sex and drink and food and sleep and relief from the heat, stories of people with explosive tempers stumbling back and forth over cultural borders, of pregnancies and evictions and sudden love . . . are like no others. We need these stories."

"Dagoberto Gilb is one of the most powerful writers of his generation, and The Flowers is perhaps his best book. It's not to be missed."

"Gilb is a legitimate and undeniable talent. Not just in 'Chicano literature, ' not just in a certain part of the country or in select college syllabi, but in the vast black sea of American ink."

"Gritos is an intimate look at Gilb's growth as a writer grappling with a desire to stay true to his working-class roots, and at the same time expose the powerful talent he has for penetrating, honest, and emotional writing about cultural misconceptions, family relationships, manual labor, and American literature."
Dimensions (Overall): 8.2 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: .55 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Literary
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 256
Publisher: Grove Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Dagoberto Gilb
Language: English
Street Date: February 3, 2009
TCIN: 94135809
UPC: 9780802144027
Item Number (DPCI): 247-15-1075
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.8 inches length x 5.4 inches width x 8.2 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.55 pounds
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