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The Nirvana Blues
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The Nirvana Blues Paperback - 2000

by John Nichols


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The seventies are over. All across America, the overgrown kids of the middle class are getting their acts together--and getting older. The once-tight Chicano community of Chamisaville is long gone, and the Anglo power brokers control almost everything. Joe Miniver--faithful husband, loving father, and all-around good guy--is about to sink roots. To buy the land he wants, he dreams up a coke scam that will net him the necessary bread. Joe is also about to embark on a series of erotic adventures with three headstrong women, bringing him face-to-face with the terrors (and absurdity) of the modern man-woman scene. This final volume in the New Mexico trilogy, like its predecessors, is a lusty, visionary novel that blends comedy and tragedy, reality and fantasy, tenderness and bite, to illuminate some very troubling truths about America--truths no less pointed and accurate today than they were twenty years ago. John Nichols is the author of nine novels and six works of nonfiction. He lives in Northern New Mexico.

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It was a springtime Saturday night in Chamisaville.

From the rear cover

The seventies are over. All across America, the overgrown kids of the middle class are getting their acts together -- and getting older. The once-tight Chicano community of Chamisaville is long gone, and the Anglo power brokers control almost everything. Joe Miniver -- faithful husband, loving father, and all-around good guy -- is about to sink roots. To buy the land he wants, he dreams up a coke scam that will net him the necessary bread. Joe is also about to embark on a series of erotic adventures with three headstrong women, bringing him face-to-face with the terrors (and absurdity) of the modern man-woman scene.

This final volume in the New Mexico trilogy, like its predecessors, is a lusty, visionary novel that blends comedy and tragedy, reality and fantasy, tenderness and bite, to illuminate some very troubling truths about America -- truths no less pointed and accurate today than they were twenty years ago.

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  • Title The Nirvana Blues
  • Author John Nichols
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 540
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-02-15
  • ISBN 9780805063400 / 0805063404
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.5 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Demographic Orientation: Small Town
    • Ethnic Orientation: Chicano
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Geographic Orientation: New Mexico
  • Library of Congress subjects Western stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99039457
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

John Nichols's New Mexico Trilogy, inaugurated in 1974 with the publication of The Milagro Beanfield War, has grown from regional stature to national appeal, from literary radicals to cult classics. Beloved for his compassionate, richly comic vision and admired for his insight into the cancer that accompanies unbridled progress, Nichols is the author of nine novels and six works of nonfiction. He lives in northern New Mexico.

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