Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson

by Bill Christofferson

Book Overview

Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, takes a second piercing look at his past through a startling new lens: hunger. The need for sustenance originating in childhood poverty, the adolescent emotional need for solace and comfort, the adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body all are explored by Gonzalez in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299196402
• ISBN13: 9780299196400
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.3"