Zia Summer The place is Albuquerque The time is now The man is Sonny Baca a small time private eye with big time dreams A great grandson of the fabled lawman Elfego Baca Sonny always carries his forebear s Col
The place is Albuquerque The time is now The man is Sonny Baca, a small time private eye with big time dreams A great grandson of the fabled lawman Elfego Baca, Sonny always carries his forebear s Colt.45, but wonders if he also carries el Bisabuelo s courage While the elder Baca gained fame by ridding Old New Mexico of dangerous desperadoes, Sonny ekes out a living iThe place is Albuquerque The time is now The man is Sonny Baca, a small time private eye with big time dreams A great grandson of the fabled lawman Elfego Baca, Sonny always carries his forebear s Colt.45, but wonders if he also carries el Bisabuelo s courage While the elder Baca gained fame by ridding Old New Mexico of dangerous desperadoes, Sonny ekes out a living investigating tacky divorces and dubious insurance claims until Gloria Dominic is found murdered in the most sensational fashion Sonny is suddenly on the case with a vengeance But then Gloria was his cousin, his beloved prima, and he has made a vow to her mother and to himself to find the killer Neither flawless beauty nor marriage to a hot shot politician had protected his cousin from a ghastly end Her body had been drained of its blood, and around her novel an arcane insignia had been etched the Zia sun symbol This was no bungled break in, says forensics She knew her murderers And Sonny knows that the sign of the sun is the work of brujas, of evil witches He senses a mysterious connection between the past and present The Aztecs, he reasons, used blood to feed the sun Is Gloria s stolen blood likewise a gift to the sun Could her bodily disfigurement be linked to the cases of cattle mutilation plaguing the area Aided by his loyal girlfriend, Rita, and spurred on by the susto, the spirit, of Gloria, Sonny s search for truth leads him straight int
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Rudolfo Anaya
Rudolfo Anaya lives and breathes the landscape of the Southwest It is a powerful force, full of magic and myth, integral to his writings Anaya, however, is a native Hispanic fascinated by cultural crossings unique to the Southwest, a combination of oldSpain and New Spain, of Mexico with Mesoamerica and the anglicizing forces of the twentieth century Rudolfo Anaya is widely acclaimed as the founder of modern Chicano literature According to the New York Times, he is the most widely read author in Hispanic communities, and sales of his classic Bless Me, Ultima 1972 have surpassed 360,000, despite the fact that none of his books have been published originally by New York publishing houses His works are standard texts in Chicano studies and literature courses around the world, and he has done than perhaps any other single person to promote publication of books by Hispanic authors in this country With the publication of his novel, Albuquerque 1992 ,Newsweek has proclaimed him a front runner in what is better called not the new multicultural writing, but the new American writing His most recent volume, published in 1995, is Zia Summer I ve always used the technique of the cuento I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page I think if we were very wise we would use that same tradition in video cassettes, in movies, and on radio from unm wrtgsw anayamlandgale.cengage free_reso