Desert Hawk Books

In Search of Snow

Luis Alberto Urrea

 

 

Paperback
272 pages
5.25" x 8"

Quantity: $16.95 & S/H  

 

Mike's world is filled with a menagerie of quirky characters, who cope with the weight of their unfulfilled dreams with bravado, humor, and violence. Mike trades snappy insults with his macho father, Texaco Turk McGurk, a moustachioed amateur boxer and self-proclaimed war hero who is unable to talk about love. Mike lusts after Lily, his seductive, poem-writing cousin. He cowers before and then confronts the vicious Ramses, grandson of Mr. Sneezy, the wisecracking Apache. And he is rescued by his best friend, Bobo, who delivers him into the care of the loving and generous Mama and Papa García

In Search of Snow is an explosive coming-of-age adventure, full of hilarious episodes and still, poignant moments. Like a blue-collar Don Quixote, Mike must blow up his windmills before he can set off to find the things he lacks, especially the snow that will temper the passion he has just set aflame.

"In Search of Snow is a fast-paced, no-holds-barred, extraordinary adventure told with grace, humor, and a whole lot of chutzpah. I think it will establish Luis Urrea as one of the most admirable voices of his generation." —John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War

Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of many books of nonfiction and poetry. He won the Christopher Award for Across the Wire and the Western States Book Award for The Fever of Being. His most recent works are Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life and Wandering Time: Western Notebooks, both from the University of Arizona Press.

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"Urrea wrests strange, beautiful poetry out of mean, lean desert terrain." —Publishers Weekly

"Urrea is one of the hottest Chicano writers around."
—The Nation

"I laughed so hard at one scene in this book that I pulled a muscle in my chest, which makes In Search of Snow a literal rib-splitter."
—The Albuquerque Journal

"IUrrea is, in three words, One Terrific Writer. Without getting in the way of the story, his hypnotic, ethereal passages paint a magnificent background. More than once, you'll find yourself rereading a paragraph, not for clarification or out of literary curiosity about how he pulled it off, but simply because it's so beautifully done."
—San Diego Union-Tribune