WMD MacheteMark Plimsoll LLC, 26/01/2011 - 564 من الصفحات The Pan-American "Huckleberry Finn" for the Twenty-first Century, a memoir of the young author's struggle with two realities, one Anglo-Saxon and the other Hispanic. In this picaresque "coming-of-age" memoir, we see a vision of North America's future in twenty-five years, when the Hispanic population becomes the majority and changes not only the demographics of the United States of America, but its culture. The author sweeps us along on a whirlwind of culture shock. He chronicles the adventures of a disgruntled industrial-age young man who feels a tribal and instinctual reluctance to accept the Third World's view of the United States, and America's foreign policy. But before he can assimilate the profound changes in language, culture, and reality, along comes a new relationship and an earthquake that stops a war only to kill twenty-two thousand people, and changes blind patriotism into something else. |
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... close examination, it hissed loud, seethed angry air through a row of open holes in the plates of its abdomen. Hours later, I got picked up by a young man in a full produce truck, and we littered the road with bright green bell peppers ...
... close examination, it hissed loud, seethed angry air through a row of open holes in the plates of its abdomen. Hours later, I got picked up by a young man in a full produce truck, and we littered the road with bright green bell peppers ...
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... close I could reach out and touch it, and break my arm. Then a curve the other way, near the canyon, and the wheels scatter loose asphalt over the edge of a drop-off into thin air, a snare drum roll punctuated by the whoosh of a few ...
... close I could reach out and touch it, and break my arm. Then a curve the other way, near the canyon, and the wheels scatter loose asphalt over the edge of a drop-off into thin air, a snare drum roll punctuated by the whoosh of a few ...
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... close as if to say Oh my God, oh my God, oh God. A couple of Mormon boys in the seats in front of me looked back and waved. I bet they knew more Spanish than I did. Tried to write postcards. I carried a long cardboard strip of ...
... close as if to say Oh my God, oh my God, oh God. A couple of Mormon boys in the seats in front of me looked back and waved. I bet they knew more Spanish than I did. Tried to write postcards. I carried a long cardboard strip of ...
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... close the crude door of planks and sticks, and fastened it with that loose, tin-can Chinese padlock. Bees buzzed around, turned into gun blue hummingbird helicopters that made tentative jabs at the morning glories and flowers that ...
... close the crude door of planks and sticks, and fastened it with that loose, tin-can Chinese padlock. Bees buzzed around, turned into gun blue hummingbird helicopters that made tentative jabs at the morning glories and flowers that ...
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... close he looked young, but built like a soft, hairless version of Tarzan of the Apes, a jungle boy nursed on Big Macs and Strawberry shakes that stand up to a straw. "I hear Panajachél's the place to get some food around here." "You'll ...
... close he looked young, but built like a soft, hairless version of Tarzan of the Apes, a jungle boy nursed on Big Macs and Strawberry shakes that stand up to a straw. "I hear Panajachél's the place to get some food around here." "You'll ...
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