Edgardo Vega Yunqué (1936–2008)
Autore di No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze [sic] Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again
Sull'Autore
Author Edgardo Vega Yunqué was born in Cidra, Puerto Rico in 1936. He moved to New York with his family in 1949 and joined the Air Force after finishing high school. He attended Santa Monica College and New York University. His first short story, Wild Horses, was published in Nuestro magazine in mostra altro 1977 and his first novel, The Comeback, was published in 1985. Throughout his lifetime, he wrote over 15 novels and 3 collections of short stories including Mendoza's Dreams, Casuality Report, Blood Fugues, and The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle. He founded the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center and was its director from 1993 to 2000. He died on August 25, 2008 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Edgardo Vega Yunqué
Opere correlate
Currents from the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry (1994) — Collaboratore — 48 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Vega Yunqué, Edgardo
- Nome legale
- Vega Yunqué, Edgardo Alberto
- Altri nomi
- Vega, Ed (pen name)
- Data di nascita
- 1936-05-20
- Data di morte
- 2008-08-26
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
Puerto Rico - Luogo di nascita
- Ponce, Puerto Rico
- Luogo di morte
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- New York University
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer
community organizer - Relazioni
- Vega, Suzanne (stepdaughter)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 9
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 202
- Popolarità
- #109,082
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 15
- Lingue
- 2
It is the story of Vidamia Farrel, who is raised by her mother (Elsa Santiago) and step-father Barry. As a teenager, she decides to find her birth-father, Billy Farrel and once she does, she enters the lives of him and his family. Billy is a Viet Nam vet suffering from his memories of the battlefield death of his friend Joey Santiago (Elsa's brother), which he blames himself for.
It's a family saga and I found myself totally lost in this story that is so huge in scope and time. Yet for all its breadth, it lacked depth. Billy Farrel, Vidamia and Elsa are complex, well-developed characters. But many of the other characters are two dimensional: Barry, the nearly perfect husband and step-father, Lurleen the perfect wife and mother. Billy's other children (Cookie, Cliff, Fawn and Caitlin) are blonde, beautiful and talented. Fawn's character gains depth in relation to a family tragedy -- more because that was necessary for the plot than because she was an important character in her own right.
For the most part, the characters are very trusting: Vidamia finds her maternal grandmother for the first time as a teenager, and Grandma Maude is only too happy to see her and accept her. As is everyone else in Billy's family. And, Vidamia's maternal grandfather (Tumba Santiago, long estranged from his family) is equally overjoyed and unquestioning when Vidamia shows up on his doorstep.
The story is interesting, and I didn't really notice any of these flaws until I was more than 3/4 through the book. There's a lot in it about jazz music and jazz legends, about race relations in the U.S. and about how you define yourself. All in all, I'm glad I spent time with Vidamia and her family.… (altro)