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008			110610s2010 azu 000 1 eng
010			_a2009010401
020			_a9781931010658
050	0	0	_aPS3613.O54945 _bS36 2010
082	0	0	_aFIC MON
100	1		_aMontoya, Maceo
245	1	4	_aThe scoundrel and the optimist _c/ Maceo Montoya
260			_aTempe, AZ _b: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe _c, c2010.
300			_a266 p. _c; 23 cm.
520			_aFilastro is a bully, used to beating up his wife, six of their seven children, and the riffraff of his village in Mexico. But he can't bring himself to harm his youngest son, Edmund, whose limbs resemble sticks and whose head seems too big for his puny body. The older children, who loathe their father, escape him by fleeing to the United States, and Edmund, who is fixated on an indifferent Ingrid Genera and yearns to learn the guitar in order to serenade her, is the only child left at home. In the wake of a drunken episode, Filastro is tortured and eventually crippled by a stranger. His wife moves out of the house, and the irrepressible Edmund, who lobbies in vain for his mother to come home, becomes his father's caregiver. In a desperate attempt to win back his wife, Filastro braves crossing the Rio Grande to beseech the forgiveness of each of his six children scattered across America.
650		4	_aFathers and sons _v--Fiction
655		7	_aDomestic fiction.
655		7	_aHumorous fiction.
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