- Paperback: 184 pages
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press; 1 edition (Oct 28 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0810120992
- ISBN-13: 978-0810120990
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 304 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Gay young Latinos are at the center of this quiet, passionate collection in the Latino Voices series. Some of the best stories are about family secrets, but it's not the usual shame-about-coming-out stuff. In "Good as Yesterday," a young woman drives her teenage brother to the detention center to visit the man who has had sex with them both, and it's her nurturing of her brother that's the strongest bond. In "By the Time You Get There, by the Time You Get Back," a man in L.A. must beg money from his successful gay son to travel back home to Mexico to visit a dying relative: Will the father repeat the lies he always tells in Mexico about his son's beautiful Anglo wife? Several stories are sharp vignettes about class: "Hombres" contrasts a desperate young waiter with the privileged diners who flirt with him. Sometimes the meditative detail goes on too long, but Munoz brings you very close to border crossings in family and community. Hazel Rochman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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"Sweet, moody, sexy, cruel. Stories told with such tenderness, they leave
you with your heart aching." -Sandra Cisneros, author of Caramelo and The House on Mango Street
you with your heart aching." -Sandra Cisneros, author of Caramelo and The House on Mango Street
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Taking Chicano/Latino Literature to New Heights,
By A Customer
This review is from: Zigzagger: Stories (Paperback)
Manuel Munoz's ZIGZAGGER is phenomenal! Each story in this collection has the ability to touch its reader in the most profound ways, teasing out the hidden and repressed emotions one could not have previously imagined the subject of literature. Not only is Munoz's writing stunningly elegant, it is consciously located at the intersection of history, personal experience, and culture. This book has taken Chicano/Latino literature to where it needed to go: the next level.
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Not your average Chicano literature..more like Human Lit,
By Jose (Hollywood, FL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zigzagger: Stories (Paperback)
This book is classified as a Chicano Literature. But it's much more than that. The stories in the book trascend any ethnic label and geography. Any reader can identify with the pain, love, suffering, happiness, loss and gain the characters in the book feel. This is not a book about Chicanos in the Central Valley, California. Heck, I have never been (nor plan to) go there. This is a book about you. Be brave. Pick up the book and read about yourself.
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4.8 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews) 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A mellifluous voice,
By Thomas M. Kazamias - Published on Amazon.com
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A mellifluous voice,powerful,sensitive and sensual. Original in a sense that it tackles issues that have been hidden, a taboo, in the macho latino culture.No sentimentalisms about abuelitas but raw reality--erotic poignant violent. Anxious to read more from this new star in western literature.Thomas M Kazamias 0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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wow..... much better than I expected!,
By J. Diaz - Published on Amazon.com
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I could not put this book down! Before I found Zigzagger, I read Muñoz's second short story collection, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue. As with his other book, as soon as I was finished, I had to read it again. His stories are lyrical yet gritty, emotional without melodrama, timeless. A writer like this only comes around once in a generation. I can't wait for his next book.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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A powerful, yet damaged, voice,
By J. Peeples "Jay Peepz" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Zigzagger: Stories (Paperback)
Manuel Munoz writes with such a powerful voice and a keen attention for details. The short stories in "Zigzagger" are not autobiographical, but obviously not completely detached from Munoz' personal experiences. I went to a reading of "Zigzagger" by Munoz prior to reading the book. His personal notes about the book and its amazing stories shed light on the damaged, vulnerable feeling in his written and spoken voices. The stories touch upon the curiosity, danger, shame and excitement of growing up gay as a Latino boy in Central California. The emotion and strength of Munoz' words defied me to put the book down, but I happily devoured it all. I wholeheartedly recommend this book.
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