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Everything begins and ends at the Kentucky Club / stories by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

By:

Saenz, Benjamin Alire

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: El Paso, TX : Cinco Puntos Press , c2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 222 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781935955320

Genre/Form:

Short stories, American

DDC classification:

FIC SAE

LOC classification:

PS3569.A27 E94 2012

Awards:

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Summary: Benjamin Alire Sáenz's stories reveal how all borders ; real, imagined, sexual, human, the line between dark and light, addict and straight ; entangle those who live on either side. Take, for instance, the Kentucky Club on Avenida Juárez two blocks south of the Rio Grande. His characters walk by, they might go in for a drink or to score, or they might just stay there for a while and let their story be told. Sáenz knows that the Kentucky Club, like special watering holes in all cities, is the contrary to borders. It welcomes Spanish and English, Mexicans and gringos, poor and rich, gay and straight, drug addicts and drunks, laughter and sadness, and even despair. It's a place of rich history and good drinks and cold beer and a long polished mahogany bar.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC SAE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		019892

Benjamin Alire Sáenz's stories reveal how all borders ; real, imagined, sexual, human, the line between dark and light, addict and straight ; entangle those who live on either side. Take, for instance, the Kentucky Club on Avenida Juárez two blocks south of the Rio Grande. His characters walk by, they might go in for a drink or to score, or they might just stay there for a while and let their story be told. Sáenz knows that the Kentucky Club, like special watering holes in all cities, is the contrary to borders. It welcomes Spanish and English, Mexicans and gringos, poor and rich, gay and straight, drug addicts and drunks, laughter and sadness, and even despair. It's a place of rich history and good drinks and cold beer and a long polished mahogany bar.

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

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