Publication

2005 - Rayo, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

77,000 words, Guess

Page Count

308 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • Goodreads1294085

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3568.O34879 M87 2005

Description

RESUMEN: Mientras el boom cultural e industrial de la Segunda Guerra Mundial dio a luz una nueva California, surgió a su vez una poderosa industria de acero, y con ella vino el pontencial de cumplir los sueños modestos de los trabajadores dispuestos a arriesgar sus vidas en el calor feroz de la acería. Traveling mostly on foot, a Mexican couple leave Mexico for the United States to escape the bleak realilties of their homeland and finally settle in Los Angeles to raise a family. Set in the industrial boom of post-Woirld War II Southern California, the story spans 60 years and three generations, portraying the journey of one family caught in a web of politics, racial polarization, and corrupt unions' power struggles, revealing the drama, pain, joy and humor of working-class life.

Description

Thirty-year-old Azucena Salcido attends her father's deathbed while remembering how their family was entangled in the politics, racial polarization, and corrupt power struggles that marked late twentieth-century California.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction.

Other Editions

  • Music of the mill: a novelRayo2005-01-01

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