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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... stare incredulous at any cloudless sky, and feel privileged, as if before an act of God. Most Midwesterners venture out of their car exhaust gray, snow covered houses on the first sunny day with temperatures in the fifties. They put on ...
... stare incredulous at any cloudless sky, and feel privileged, as if before an act of God. Most Midwesterners venture out of their car exhaust gray, snow covered houses on the first sunny day with temperatures in the fifties. They put on ...
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... stared at the map. The volcanoes' flanks slide down southward from Chimaltenango to the floodplains and pastures where droopeared, hump-backed Brahma cattle lay in the shade of lone rocket-shapedCeiba trees. Farther south nearer the ...
... stared at the map. The volcanoes' flanks slide down southward from Chimaltenango to the floodplains and pastures where droopeared, hump-backed Brahma cattle lay in the shade of lone rocket-shapedCeiba trees. Farther south nearer the ...
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... stared right at me, immobile, its great reddish eye surrounded by a round design of tiny white feathers as fine as hair. Even the iridescent blue-green metallic sheen of its feathers appeared real. Then it raised one leg. It watched for ...
... stared right at me, immobile, its great reddish eye surrounded by a round design of tiny white feathers as fine as hair. Even the iridescent blue-green metallic sheen of its feathers appeared real. Then it raised one leg. It watched for ...
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... stared at me. "Would you like some wine? I've got some wine here somewhere." He set the parrot down on the floor and it ambled around with one eye fixed upon me, as if it feared I might pounce on him. When Curt got up from his chair ...
... stared at me. "Would you like some wine? I've got some wine here somewhere." He set the parrot down on the floor and it ambled around with one eye fixed upon me, as if it feared I might pounce on him. When Curt got up from his chair ...
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... stared at me, one side of the head at a time, as it swayed from one foot to the other. It seemed intelligent beyond the sarcastic sound of its laugh, so unlike a hyena, or a mechanical clown. Curt could coax it to talk, sometimes, but I ...
... stared at me, one side of the head at a time, as it swayed from one foot to the other. It seemed intelligent beyond the sarcastic sound of its laugh, so unlike a hyena, or a mechanical clown. Curt could coax it to talk, sometimes, but I ...
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