Move Over, Scopes: and Other Writings

Move Over, Scopes: and Other Writings

by Julian Silva
Move Over, Scopes: and Other Writings

Move Over, Scopes: and Other Writings

by Julian Silva

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Overview

Move Over, Scopes and Other Writings both extends Julian Silva's richly-textured portrait of Portuguese-American community life in his narrative diptych, Distant Music, and enlarges it to include subjects as varied as backbiting London theatre has-beens ("The Waxworks Show"), a final pilgrimage to the Brontë parsonage ("A Visit to Haworth"), and recollections of a Japanese-American babysitter interned following Pearl Harbor ("Kimi"). As always, Silva is fully attentive to descriptive detail and apt choice of metaphor—nowhere more so than in recalling livestock being raised and dispatched in "Coming to Terms with the Facts of Animal Life." The novella Move Over, Scopes, however, does it all, as Henry Ramos attempts to mollify fellow Portuguese-American Catholics—led by his own wife Louise—outraged over Estelle Dobson teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Twists and turns include machinations of a hotly contested School Board election and the need to resist Miss Dobson's seductive appeal. At a time when Creationism may be making a come-back, Move Over, Scopes could not be more timely.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781933227337
Publisher: Tagus Press
Publication date: 07/12/2011
Series: Portuguese in the Americas Series , #1
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

JULIAN SILVA (1927-2017) is the author of the novel The Gunnysack Castle. His short fiction has appeared in Writer's Forum, Kansas Quarterly, Cosmopolitan. He lives in San Francisco.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Move Over, Scopes
Brave Cossacks
The Waxworks Show
The Tortoiseshell Caddy
A Candle in the Wind
A Visit to Haworth
Kimi
My Jo
Coming to Terms with the Facts of Animal Life
The Woman in the Doorway

What People are Saying About This

Alexander Blackburn

"No other American writer of his generation is nearly as urbane as Julian Silva--courteously and compassionately accepting of human fallibility and the messiness of love and death. He glides from gentle mockery to whiplash irony, an intrepid votary at flesh-and-blood altars, embracing the plight of outcasts, the insulted and the injured."
Alexander Blackburn, former editor of the University of Colorado's Writers' Forum

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