Recipient of the 1992 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award and the Multicultural Publishers Exchange 1992 best book of fiction. Lucha Corpi begins a new literary cycle with her character, Gloria Damasco, a Chicana feminist detective who is bent on solving several murders that take place in Los Angeles during the period of the Chicano civil rights movement. Fast-paced and suspenseful, packed with an assortment of memorable characters, the novel holds the reader's attention clear through to its conclusion in the California wine ...
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Recipient of the 1992 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award and the Multicultural Publishers Exchange 1992 best book of fiction. Lucha Corpi begins a new literary cycle with her character, Gloria Damasco, a Chicana feminist detective who is bent on solving several murders that take place in Los Angeles during the period of the Chicano civil rights movement. Fast-paced and suspenseful, packed with an assortment of memorable characters, the novel holds the reader's attention clear through to its conclusion in the California wine country eighteen years later.
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Illustrated by PINON, MARK COVER art. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 8.5 X 5.7 X 0.8 inches VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S19.95) DUST JACKET clean, bright, solid; GOLD spine titles on BACK CLOTH HARD covers. COVER HAS GOLD AWARD STICKER "Winner Pen Oakland...1992 winner...". WOMAN AUTHOR PHOTO INNER DJ BACK FLAP..; MARY VOTIVE CANDLE COVER ART; 189 pages; Multicultural Publishers Exchange 1992 Book Award of Excellence in Adult Fiction A Chicano Civil Rights march has been disrupted by the Los Angeles police, resulting in the grue-some death of a prominent reporter. The tear gas has barely settled when a small, defiled body is left on a street in Los Angeles. Gloria Damasco, a feisty political activist, finds the murdered child and begins an investigation that will lead her on a trail of international conspiracy and bloody vengeance.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book 1st ed. A fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket with traces of shelfwear and rubbing to the extremities. This Latin author's first mystery and second novel. Winner of the 1992 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award and the Muticultural Publishers Exchange Book Award of Excellence. "A haze of dazzlingly evocative prose very nearly hides this first mystery's slack plotting. Corpi's ear for Latino rhythms and her feminist leanings produce some original and highly charged narrative moments. But plot still matters. In 1970, a three-year-old boy dies on an L.A. street during the unrest of the National Chicano Moratorium. Gloria Damasco finds the body, alerts the police and befriends the child's family. From here on, Corpi breezes through the action. The only key witness, a street gang member, is killed; then Kenyon, the cop on the case, zeroes in on Gloria's photographer friend as a suspect for no apparent reason. Corpi, a poet, gives her sleuth occasional clairvoyant moments that lead towards the killer and provide hints of subtle menace. Although careful readers might anticipate the solution and wish for a few more suspects, Corpi expands the genre with this work of small triumphs."--PUBLSHERS WEEKLY.