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In Search Of Snow
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In Search Of Snow Trade paperback. - 1999 - 1st Edition

by Urrea, Luis Alberto

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Tucson: Univ. Of Arizona Press. G+ In Wraps. Light Wear & Edgewear. Small Black Stain At Fore-Edge. Pages Clean & Tight. Pages: 260.. 1999. 1st Thus.. Trade Paperback..
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  • Title In Search Of Snow
  • Author Urrea, Luis Alberto
  • Binding Trade Paperback.
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1st Thus.
  • Condition Used - G+ In Wraps. Light Wear & Edgewear. Small Black Stain At Fore-Edge. Pages Clean & Tight. Pages: 260.
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Univ. Of Arizona Press, Tucson
  • Date 1999
  • Features Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # MASTER225932I
  • ISBN 9780816520152 / 0816520151
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
    • Geographic Orientation: Arizona
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, World War, 1939-1945 - Veterans - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99036758
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the jacket flap

In the hot Arizona desert of the late 1950s, Mike McGurk comes of age in one big, riotous gush. Trapped pumping gas at a desolate roadstop, he yearns for things he has never known: love, hope, and the soft, white calmness of snow. Mike's world is filled with a menagerie of quirky characters, who cope with the weight of their unfulfilled dreams with bravado, humor, and violence. Mike trades snappy insults with his macho father, Texaco Turk McGurk, a moustachioed amateur boxer and self-proclaimed war hero who is unable to talk about love. Mike lusts after Lily, his seductive, poem-writing cousin. He cowers before and then confronts the vicious Ramses, grandson of Mr. Sneezy, the wisecracking Apache. And he is rescued by his best friend, Bobo, who delivers him into the care of the loving and generous Mama and Papa Garcia. "In Search of Snow" is an explosive coming-of-age adventure, full of hilarious episodes and still, poignant moments. Like a blue-collar Don Quixote, Mike must blow up his windmills before he can set off to find the things he lacks, especially the snow that will temper the passion he has just set aflame.

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