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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... smiles, open trust, and a studied nonchalance about our possessions to avoid the insult of distrust. People shared stories and joints of marijuana (smoked in "secret") and traded books, advice, plans, and sometimes even their lovers. To ...
... smiles, open trust, and a studied nonchalance about our possessions to avoid the insult of distrust. People shared stories and joints of marijuana (smoked in "secret") and traded books, advice, plans, and sometimes even their lovers. To ...
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... smiles of hopeless joy. Here, one Mayan child, determined to charm me, followed behind me. I heard his footsteps crunch across the gravel and it reminded me of a faithful, happy dog. I could not convince him to go away, so I decided to ...
... smiles of hopeless joy. Here, one Mayan child, determined to charm me, followed behind me. I heard his footsteps crunch across the gravel and it reminded me of a faithful, happy dog. I could not convince him to go away, so I decided to ...
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... smile and no haste, he gently took my money from my hand, counted it aloud, slow, and deliberate, bill by bill, as if he thought me an idiot. Then he took his Quetzales and started to count out my change, bill by bill, until he reached ...
... smile and no haste, he gently took my money from my hand, counted it aloud, slow, and deliberate, bill by bill, as if he thought me an idiot. Then he took his Quetzales and started to count out my change, bill by bill, until he reached ...
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... smile to point at the window to warn us as we neared a break in the trees with another glorious view of the lake. Terraced mini-fields scalloped the mountainsides, each defined by tiny canals perhaps used for hundreds or thousands of ...
... smile to point at the window to warn us as we neared a break in the trees with another glorious view of the lake. Terraced mini-fields scalloped the mountainsides, each defined by tiny canals perhaps used for hundreds or thousands of ...
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... smiles, hand gestures, and words that sounded Japanese with glottal stops like rocks dropped into a pond. The children kicked at the dogs to keep them back. This went on for about ten minutes. I realized that they, like me, spoke ...
... smiles, hand gestures, and words that sounded Japanese with glottal stops like rocks dropped into a pond. The children kicked at the dogs to keep them back. This went on for about ten minutes. I realized that they, like me, spoke ...
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