Alfredo Montenegro is a gambusino, or scavenger of mines. Following the pull-out of American mining interests from Mexico in the late 1920s, he roams the hills, eking out a bare existence by hauling promising samples into town and hoping to make deals with current land owners.Prospecting requires a grubstake, and from time to time Montenegro takes a steady job as a trucker or supervisor for a small Mexican mining company. The problems of his lifestyle are reflected in a growing estrangement from his wife, Irene, and by a ...
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Alfredo Montenegro is a gambusino, or scavenger of mines. Following the pull-out of American mining interests from Mexico in the late 1920s, he roams the hills, eking out a bare existence by hauling promising samples into town and hoping to make deals with current land owners.Prospecting requires a grubstake, and from time to time Montenegro takes a steady job as a trucker or supervisor for a small Mexican mining company. The problems of his lifestyle are reflected in a growing estrangement from his wife, Irene, and by a break with his foster father, the pastor Ramirez. Alfredo is tortured by his inability to find a major deposit and is resentful of the fact that Irene is attracted to his CPA son-in-law, who doesn't take risks.Eventually his obsession reaches the point where no professional miner will go out with him, and he has to settle for a farmer to assist him. It is then that he makes his big strike.
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Add this copy of Gambusino to cart. $6.00, good condition, Sold by Bookmarc's rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from La Porte, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Plover Press.
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Good in Good jacket. CF4-A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library labels and stamps on the top outside paper edges and front endpaper plus there is some tape residue on the inside surfaces of the boards from where the endflaps were taped down to the boards. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library labels on the spine and on the front plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. Translated from the Spanish by John Copeland. A novel about a gambusino or scavenger of mines. He roams the hills, eking out a living by hauling promising samples into town and making deals with current land owners. The author is a winner of the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia and El Nacional's 50th Anniversary Novel Contest. By the author of "Llaves de Urgell" and "Guerra en el Paraíso." 113p.
Add this copy of Gambusino (Plover Contemporary Latin-American Classics to cart. $46.39, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Academy Chicago Publishers.
Add this copy of Gambusino to cart. $50.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Plover Press.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Uncorrected proof of the First American edition. Printed wrappers. Translated by John Copeland. Fine in a fine dust jacket with publisher's material laid in.
