Dreams and Other Ailments--Sueños y otros achaques

by Teresa Bevin, Bevin Teresa (Translator)

Overview

Winner of the Bronze Award from ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award for Translation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781928589136
Publisher:	Gival Press
Publication date:	10/12/2001
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)
Age Range:	13 Years

Editorial Reviews

"Dreams and Other Ailments" is a doorway to the twenty-first century where discovery is magical, even fantastic, and yet it is grounded in a reality that has an edge. Bevin takes the reader on journeys that transit between dimensions, juxtaposing the seen and the unseen, the mundane and the miraculous, the tragic and the hopeful, while maintaining a connection that runs like a line to her Cuban beginnings. Unpolitical but with a message, irreligious yet full of spirit, the stories express themselves in many voices, conflating race, gender, age, rage, ecstasy, and resignation. Bevin's overriding mark of style is her humor that twists each character's fate with ironic promise, leaving the reader expecting the best while knowing a harsher hand may intervene. An inspiration, an education, and a chance to enter multiple realities, "Dreams and Other Ailments" will lift your spirits as it makes you wonder if the spirits being lifted are other than your own. An important collection by a brilliant new writer.
—author, literary critic, and professor of Theater, University of Vermont

Dr. Lynne Greeley