The Magic of Blood

by Gilb, Dagoberto

• ISBN13: 9780802133991
• ISBN10: 0802133991
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-06-04
• Publisher: Grove Press

Summary

Dagoberto Gilb is a powerful and important new talent in American fiction. Fresh, funny, relentless, and beautifully crafted, his writing possesses that rare Chekhovian ability to perfectly capture the nuances of ordinary life and make it resonate with unexpected meaning.

Table of Contents

	p. 1
Look on the Bright Side	p. 3
The Death Mask of Pancho Villa	p. 17
Nancy Flores	p. 27
I Danced with the Prettiest Girl: (a Tex-Mex Song)	p. 51
The Magic of Blood	p. 63
Al, in Phoenix	p. 75
Romero's Shirt	p. 93
Churchgoers	p. 101
Something Foolish	p. 119
The Prize	p. 127
Truck	p. 139
	p. 147
Where the Sun Don't Shine	p. 149
Parking Places	p. 159
Recipe	p. 165
Photographs Near a Rolls Royce	p. 171
The Desperado	p. 181
Down in the West Texas Town	p. 189
Loveinl. A	p. 199
Winners on the Pass Line	p. 203
	p. 225
The Señora	p. 227
Ballad	p. 231
Therat	p. 241
Franklin Del a Noroo Sevelt Was a Democrat	p. 247
Hollywood!	p. 257
Vic Damone's Music	p. 265
Getting a Job in Dell City	p. 277
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