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The Resource The crystal frontier : a novel in nine stories, Carlos Fuentes ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam
The crystal frontier : a novel in nine stories, Carlos Fuentes ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam
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The item The crystal frontier : a novel in nine stories, Carlos Fuentes ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries.
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- Nine stories dealing with U.S.-Mexico relations. In the title story, a Mexican window washer meets an American executive, Girlfriends is about a Mexican maid and her racist Anglo employer, and Rio Grande, Rio Bravo is on border crossings
- The nine stories comprising this novel all concern people who in one way or another have had something to do with, or still are part of, the family of a powerful oligarch of northern Mexico with manifold connections to the United States. Each story concerns a Mexican-American encounter--sometimes hilarious, often tragic, frequently ambivalent, inevitably poignant--and each unique drama in its own way epitomizes some striking contrast along the invisible, reflective, dangerous frontier that divides the American-Mexican world. Beyond the emblematic power of Mr. Fuentes's exuberant fiction to make us think about the political and cultural themes which affect and distort that double world, there is the sheer human diversity of life on "crystal frontier." These stories pulse with vivid experience--of love in its many guises, of loneliness, of youth and age, of heartbreak and redemption.--From publisher description
- Language
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- eng
- spa
- eng
- Edition
- 1st Farrar, Straus, and Giroux ed.
- Extent
- 266 pages
- Contents
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- Capital girl
- Pain
- Spoils
- Line of oblivion
- Malintzin of the Maquilas
- Las Amigas
- Crystal frontier
- Bet
- Rio Grande, Rio Bravo
- Isbn
- 9780374132774
- Label
- The crystal frontier : a novel in nine stories
- Title
- The crystal frontier
- Title remainder
- a novel in nine stories
- Statement of responsibility
- Carlos Fuentes ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam
- Language
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- eng
- spa
- eng
- Summary
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- Nine stories dealing with U.S.-Mexico relations. In the title story, a Mexican window washer meets an American executive, Girlfriends is about a Mexican maid and her racist Anglo employer, and Rio Grande, Rio Bravo is on border crossings
- The nine stories comprising this novel all concern people who in one way or another have had something to do with, or still are part of, the family of a powerful oligarch of northern Mexico with manifold connections to the United States. Each story concerns a Mexican-American encounter--sometimes hilarious, often tragic, frequently ambivalent, inevitably poignant--and each unique drama in its own way epitomizes some striking contrast along the invisible, reflective, dangerous frontier that divides the American-Mexican world. Beyond the emblematic power of Mr. Fuentes's exuberant fiction to make us think about the political and cultural themes which affect and distort that double world, there is the sheer human diversity of life on "crystal frontier." These stories pulse with vivid experience--of love in its many guises, of loneliness, of youth and age, of heartbreak and redemption.--From publisher description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Fuentes, Carlos
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PQ7297.F793
- LC item number
- F7613 1997
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1941-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Mac Adam, Alfred J.
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mexican Americans
- Short stories
- Frame-stories
- Frame-stories
- Mexican Americans
- Short stories
- Mexican-American Border Region
- North America
- Label
- The crystal frontier : a novel in nine stories, Carlos Fuentes ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
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- Content category
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- Contents
- Capital girl -- Pain -- Spoils -- Line of oblivion -- Malintzin of the Maquilas -- Las Amigas -- Crystal frontier -- Bet -- Rio Grande, Rio Bravo
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- 1st Farrar, Straus, and Giroux ed.
- Extent
- 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374132774
- Lccn
- 97011230
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- (OCoLC)36521079
- (OCoLC)ocm36521079
- Label
- The crystal frontier : a novel in nine stories, Carlos Fuentes ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam
- Carrier category
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
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- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Capital girl -- Pain -- Spoils -- Line of oblivion -- Malintzin of the Maquilas -- Las Amigas -- Crystal frontier -- Bet -- Rio Grande, Rio Bravo
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- 1st Farrar, Straus, and Giroux ed.
- Extent
- 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374132774
- Lccn
- 97011230
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
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- (OCoLC)36521079
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