5 Ergebnisse.

One day, a curious event captures the imagination of tiny San Diego, Texas, close to the border. When a burnt-out hero of the Mexican Revolution arrives in tiny San Diego, Texas seeking refuge, he is soon entangled with a widow, her children and the whole town in a magical comedy of injured pride, unrequited love, misplaced revenge and overblown gossip.

This is a collection of poetry by Lionel Garcia who spent his early years with his grandfather on a ranch deep in the scrub country of South Texas.

I CAN HEAR THE COWBELLS RING is Lionel G. Garcia's collection of autobiographical vignettes reconstructing life in a small rural village in South Texas after World War II. With characteristic fine humor and occasional brushstrokes of nostalgia, the author succeeds in portraying a multitude of characters -- from his, crazy uncle Merce, to the long suffering village priest and the town dog -- brought together by warmth, tolerance and caring that...

Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters' Jesse Jones Award for best work of fiction, and winner of the Texas Literary Award for best book of fiction.

Lionel Garcia believes that no one should read a short story and be the same person afterward. The fifteen stories in this collection have that effect. They will affect each reader differently but leave none untouched. These stories focus on South Texas' Hispanic culture most frequently--but not always. It is a world Garcia knows well, and he portrays its complexities with a clearly realistic and often bemused eye. In some stories he sees his ...