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"I'm outta here! I got a future!" crows Roberto Silva when he is down-sized out of his job as a security guard at a bank in Oakland. But Roberto's future isn't the one he was looking forward to. This is the 1990s, and upward mobility in the city requires resources that Roberto is short of. Before he knows it, he is living in an abandoned quonset hut and then on the street, where he crosses paths with poet Silver Mendez, a survivor of the 1960s whose luck has run out, and Gus Hernandez, a compadre from his days at the bank. The ups and downs of the lives of men who are always looking for a way to earn a cup of coffee with plenty of sugar and cream, their desperate ingenuity, their hunger, their dauntless optimism have never been brought to life as vividly as in this sweet, sad, funny trio of interlocking stories by one of America's most original writers. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I've never read any of his poetry, and I'm not that interested in poetry, but he writes prose like the best poet that ever existed.
I've read other books and short stories that describe mundane things. Those books can be boring. But Gary Soto, the poet, packs meaning and beauty into every detail of this book. He can (and does) descibe a dog taking a dump and makes it important and meaningful.
This book is about poverty. It's about what happens when a non-homeless person becomes homeless. What do you spend your last $100 on when you have no way to get more money? What about your last $5? It's really quite fascinating.
A+++ would read again. ( )