The Resource Gordo : stories, Jaime Cortez
Gordo : stories, Jaime Cortez
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The item Gordo : stories, Jaime Cortez represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- Summary
- "His first-ever collection of stories, Jaime Cortez's Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California, in the 1970s. A young boy named Gordo fights back tears underneath a wrestler's mask as he is forced to fight other boys and grow into his father's expectations of manhood. As he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, poverty, and discovers the wrenching divides between documented and undocumented immigrants. Fat Cookie, high schooler and resident artist, uses tiny library pencils to draw murals of graffiti flowers along the camp's blank walls, the words CHICANO POWER boldly lettered across, before she runs away from home one day with her mother's boyfriend. Los Tigres, the perfect pair of twins who show up to Gyrich Farms every season without fail, are champion drinkers until one of them is rushed to the emergency room after a brawl, bloody and slumped in a tattered easy chair on the back of a pick-up truck. These scenes from Steinbeck Country seen so intimately from within are full of humor, family drama, and a sweet frankness about serious matters--who belongs to America and how are they treated? Written with balance and poise, Cortez braids together elegantly tragicomic and inviting stories about life on a California camp, in essence redefining what all-American means."--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
-
- First edition.
- First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
- Extent
- 226 pages :
- Contents
-
- The problem of style
- Raymundo the fag
- Ofelia's last ride
- The Jesus donut
- El Gordo
- Chorizo
- Cookie
- The nasty book wars
- Fandango
- Alex
- The pardos
- Isbn
- 9780802158086
- Label
- Gordo : stories
- Title
- Gordo
- Title remainder
- stories
- Statement of responsibility
- Jaime Cortez
- Subject
-
- trueUndocumented immigrants
- trueMexican American families
- Mexican Americans
- trueMexican Americans
- Mexican Americans -- California
- Mexican Americans -- California -- Fiction
- trueMexican people
- Migrant labor
- Migrant labor -- California -- Fiction
- trueMigrant workers
- trueMisfits (Persons)
- trueNorth American people
- truePoverty
- trueSexuality
- Short stories
- Short stories
- trueSmall towns
- trueAgricultural laborers
- trueAmerican people
- trueBelonging
- trueBoys
- trueBoys -- Sexuality
- trueBullies and bullying
- trueBullying and bullies
- California
- trueCalifornia
- Fiction
- trueGay teenagers
- trueGenderqueer
- trueGenderqueer people
- trueGrowing up
- trueIdentity
- Identity (Psychology)
- trueMexican American boys
- trueMexican American children
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "His first-ever collection of stories, Jaime Cortez's Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California, in the 1970s. A young boy named Gordo fights back tears underneath a wrestler's mask as he is forced to fight other boys and grow into his father's expectations of manhood. As he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, poverty, and discovers the wrenching divides between documented and undocumented immigrants. Fat Cookie, high schooler and resident artist, uses tiny library pencils to draw murals of graffiti flowers along the camp's blank walls, the words CHICANO POWER boldly lettered across, before she runs away from home one day with her mother's boyfriend. Los Tigres, the perfect pair of twins who show up to Gyrich Farms every season without fail, are champion drinkers until one of them is rushed to the emergency room after a brawl, bloody and slumped in a tattered easy chair on the back of a pick-up truck. These scenes from Steinbeck Country seen so intimately from within are full of humor, family drama, and a sweet frankness about serious matters--who belongs to America and how are they treated? Written with balance and poise, Cortez braids together elegantly tragicomic and inviting stories about life on a California camp, in essence redefining what all-American means."--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 11000834
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cortez, Jaime
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mexican Americans
- Migrant labor
- Mexican Americans
- Migrant labor
- California
- Label
- Gordo : stories, Jaime Cortez
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- The problem of style
- Raymundo the fag
- Ofelia's last ride
- The Jesus donut
- El Gordo
- Chorizo
- Cookie
- The nasty book wars
- Fandango
- Alex
- The pardos
- Control code
- on1202746211
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
-
- First edition.
- First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
- Extent
- 226 pages :
- Isbn
- 9780802158086
- Lccn
- 2021027401
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1202746211
- Label
- Gordo : stories, Jaime Cortez
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- The problem of style
- Raymundo the fag
- Ofelia's last ride
- The Jesus donut
- El Gordo
- Chorizo
- Cookie
- The nasty book wars
- Fandango
- Alex
- The pardos
- Control code
- on1202746211
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
-
- First edition.
- First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
- Extent
- 226 pages :
- Isbn
- 9780802158086
- Lccn
- 2021027401
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1202746211
Subject
- trueUndocumented immigrants
- trueMexican American families
- Mexican Americans
- trueMexican Americans
- Mexican Americans -- California
- Mexican Americans -- California -- Fiction
- trueMexican people
- Migrant labor
- Migrant labor -- California -- Fiction
- trueMigrant workers
- trueMisfits (Persons)
- trueNorth American people
- truePoverty
- trueSexuality
- Short stories
- Short stories
- trueSmall towns
- trueAgricultural laborers
- trueAmerican people
- trueBelonging
- trueBoys
- trueBoys -- Sexuality
- trueBullies and bullying
- trueBullying and bullies
- California
- trueCalifornia
- Fiction
- trueGay teenagers
- trueGenderqueer
- trueGenderqueer people
- trueGrowing up
- trueIdentity
- Identity (Psychology)
- trueMexican American boys
- trueMexican American children
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