San Antonio College Library

Contains twenty-four short stories by American cult figure Paul Bowles.

"A flamboyant, lascivious, comic novel about restoration and renewal, in which the protagonist returns to his hometown and encounters a life that is both instantly familiar and disturbingly strange. His journey back begins as a recovery mission, but then becomes a desperate search for, confrontation with, immersion in, and emergence from his lost past."--Publisher's description.

"... an adventure novel that deals with dangerous border crossings, confrontations with a sorceress and drug smuggling. It is also the engrossing chronicle of three generations of a family from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The trials and tribulations of the protagonist, Heraclio Cavazos, and his offspring are representative of cultural evolution on the U.S.-Mexico border: the rich spectrum of cultural exchange alongside the wanton traffic in laborers,...