"San Juan: Memoir of a City" conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflective writers, Edgardo Rodriguez Julia. No mere sightseeing tour, this is culture through immersion, a circuit of San Juan's historical and intellectual vistas as well as its architecture. In the allusive cityscape he recreates, Rodriguez Julia invokes the ghosts of his childhood, of San Juan's elder literati, and of characters from his own novels. On the most tangible level, the city is a place of cabarets and cockfighting clubs, flaneurs and beach bums, smoke-filled...
"San Juan: Memoir of a City" conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflective writers, Edgardo Rodrig...
"San Juan: Memoir of a City" conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflective writers, Edgardo Rodrí guez Juliá . No mere sightseeing tour, this is culture through immersion, a circuit of San Juan's historical and intellectual vistas as well as its architecture. In the allusive cityscape he recreates, Rodrí guez Juliá invokes the ghosts of his childhood, of San Juan's elder literati, and of characters from his own...
"San Juan: Memoir of a City" conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflec...
Finalist for "Foreword s" 2011 Book of the Year Award in Literary Fiction
" Nahoonkara]incorporates elements of historical fiction with experimental fiction, but nothing that pulls the reader out of the fictional dream." Robin Martin, "Gently Read Literature"
"Departing from traditional narrative form, Grandbois moves masterfully between first, second, and third persons to invite readers into a textual visualization of how individual choices affect the well-being of the community." "Review of Contemporary Fiction"
"Peter...
"ForeWord Reviews" Book of the Year Award Winner
Finalist for "Foreword s" 2011 Book of the Year Award in Literary Fiction
Peter Grandbois’ This House That is a haunting collection of poetry that traces the effort to reintergrate the self after loss.It is a book about family, about love, and about the mystery of being human.
Peter Grandbois’ This House That is a haunting collection of poetry that traces the effort to reintergrate the self after loss.It is...
