The Valley

by Rolando Hinojosa

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916950379
• ISBN13: 9780916950378
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Sparse, lean style suits subject matter

Hinojosa creates a daguerrotype in print by ruthlessly editing until a skeletal work is left, devoid of embellishment or superfluity, illustrating masterfully the liminal position occupied by the chicanos in the border towns he reveals to us. I read this work in college and couldn't bear to sell it back to the bookstore. Every white, middle-class, midwestern student should read this book as well as Rivera's ...And The Earth Did Not Devour Him- my son will.

The Valley

Rolando Hinojosa, born in Mercedes Texas, in 1929, is one of the best-known contemporary Chicano writers....Hinojosa's work depicts the autonomous Chicano culture of the Rio Grande Valley and its modes of coping with the separate Anglo world. Our author is a master portraitist whose deft and concise use of language enables him to describe events, personages, and mores. His style makes strategic use of documents to create a fiction of alleged veracity. Ultimately, the conflicts that the author exposes and develops are resolved with his characteristically wry, ironic humor. --- from book's back cover