Exuberant and colorful, Latin Moon in Manhattan paints a vivid portrait of New York City as the land of El Dorado for today's Latino immigrants. From Little Colombia in Queens to the street life of Times Square, this brilliant novel is crowded with an extraordinary cast of characters: Hot Sauce, a midget hooker; Simon Bolivar, a parrot who croons Julio Iglesias songs; the Urrutias, a family rich from cocaine smuggling; Santiago Martinez, a loner and would-be poet whose ancient cat, Mr. O'Donnell, is slowly dying of an ...
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Exuberant and colorful, Latin Moon in Manhattan paints a vivid portrait of New York City as the land of El Dorado for today's Latino immigrants. From Little Colombia in Queens to the street life of Times Square, this brilliant novel is crowded with an extraordinary cast of characters: Hot Sauce, a midget hooker; Simon Bolivar, a parrot who croons Julio Iglesias songs; the Urrutias, a family rich from cocaine smuggling; Santiago Martinez, a loner and would-be poet whose ancient cat, Mr. O'Donnell, is slowly dying of an enlarged heart. Exploding with a profusion of plots and subplots involving drug smuggling, romance, and the literary politics of Queens, Latin Moon in Manhattan is a rich and utterly charming work.
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Add this copy of Latin Moon in Manhattan: a Novel to cart. $1.90, good condition, Sold by Gulf Coast Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Memphis, TN, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by University of Wisconsin Press.
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Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. BW3-A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with only very minor overall shelf wear. The story is about a gay Latino finding his place in New York City. The main character is a recent immigrant from Colombia. He makes a significant move away from his mother to an apartment in Times Square. There he meets a group of friends that illustrate contemporary urban life in New York. The author celebrates the vitality and beauty of life there. He uses characters who, while they might engage in various perversions, they never cease to be people who almost anyone would welcome as neighbors. 212p.
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Trade paperback, no printing stated (possible book club edition), Very Good Plus/pictorial wraps; light wear and rubbing to covers and cover edges, some spine reading creases no names or markings inside, 8vo., 212 pages.,
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New York. 1992. St Martin's Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0312071000. 212 pages. hardcover. Cover: Cary Henrie. keywords: Literature Translated Colombia Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Exuberant and colorful, LATIN MOON IN MANHATTAN paints a stunning portrait of New York City as the land of El Dorado for today's Latino immigrants. From Little Colombia in Queens to 42nd Street in Manhattan, the vibrant life of Latino New York offers an extraordinary cast of characters: Hot Sauce, a midget hooker; Simon Bolivar, a parrot who croons Julio Iglesias songs; Ben Ami Burztyn, a rich Venezuelan gourmand and would-be biographer of Edgar Allen Poe; Rebecca Allavant, a librarian from Alabama in love with a South American hairdresser who doesn't speak English, and the Urrutias, a family rich from cocaine smuggling. And, of course, our protagonist, Santiago Martinez, loner and would-be poet, who thinks he will spend the summer months watching his ancient cat, Mr. O'Donnell, die of an enlarged heart. Instead, his life explodes with a profusion of plots and subplots involving cocaine smuggling, romance, literary politics among the middle-class ladies in Queens, the death of his best boyhood friend from AIDS, and the efforts of his own family and the Urrutias to marry him off to their youngest daughter, a beautiful, well-educated motorcycle fanatic who happens to be a lesbian. LATIN MOON IN MANHATTAN presents a pulsing portrait of Latin life in the urban heart of America, a lyrical homage to city living in the capital of the present. inventory #15698.
