Music of the mill
a novel
1st ed.
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Word Count
77,000 words, Guess
Page Count
308 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3309015M
- ISBN-100060560762
- OCLC Control Number56809868
- Library of Congress Control Number2004056971
- LibraryThing845605
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- 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.
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