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Men without Bliss
Short stories that assess the silent suffering of menIn cities and fields, Mexican American men are leading lives of quiet desperation. In this collection of thirteen startling stories, Rigoberto Gonz eyes to unexpected facets of Latino culture, and perhaps of their own lives.
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
October 13th 2008
by University of Oklahoma Press
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From my review in MultiCultural Review:
There is, without a doubt, an important difference in the definition of the words “machismo” and “masculinity.” For readers seeking to understand the subtle differences between the two terms, turning to J.L. Torres’s The Family Terrorist and Other Stories and Rigoberto González’s Men Without Bliss is a meaningful place to start. Both authors, in their short story collections, ruminate on what it means to be men, on how both masculinity and machi...more
There is, without a doubt, an important difference in the definition of the words “machismo” and “masculinity.” For readers seeking to understand the subtle differences between the two terms, turning to J.L. Torres’s The Family Terrorist and Other Stories and Rigoberto González’s Men Without Bliss is a meaningful place to start. Both authors, in their short story collections, ruminate on what it means to be men, on how both masculinity and machi...more
Refreshing and sorrowful. These stories are relics of the shaded, sometimes isolated, side of life men in our culture too rarely share. Gonzalez is a graceful storyteller with a steady hand.
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