The Spanish Teacher - de la Cuesta, Barbara

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Résumé :
Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award ...De la Cuesta's novel maintains an accumulating power which holds onto a reader's attention not only through the forceful figure of Ord??ez, but by demonstrating acutely how ordinary lives are impacted by the underlying social and political landscape. Compelling reading. -Tom Tolnay, publisher, Birch Brook Press and author of Selling America and This Is the Forest Primeval Barbara de la Cuesta's The Spanish Teacher has everything to thrill you-pace, a great balance of description, gesture and action, charmed, perfectly-tuned dialogue, and most notably, a character we follow as closely and sympathetically as if we were living right there inside the story with him... So many books show us a character who seems to capably hang and move like marionettes from the strings of a fairly competent puppeteer, but rarely do we see a full drama like this, where every bit of the writing extends from, grows out of, is part and parcel with the author's complete realization of and connection to her character... -Don Berger, judge for the Gival Press Novel Award

Biographie:
Barbara de la Cuesta taught and worked as a journalist in South America, and is now a teacher of English as a Second Language and Spanish. Out of this experience came her two prize-winning novels, The Spanish Teacher, winner of the Gival Press Award in 2007, and Rosa, winner of the Driftless Novella Prize from Brain Mill Press in 2017. Fellowships in fiction from the Mass`achusetts Artists' Foundation, and the New Jersey Council on the Arts, as well as residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, The Virginia Center, and the Millay Colony, have allowed her to complete these novels. She has also published two collections of poetry with Finishing Line Press, and her collection of short stories, The Place Where Judas Lost his Boots, has recently won The Brighthorse Prize for short fictionals she and the local people of the remote village attend him....

Sommaire:
Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award ...De la Cuesta's novel maintains an accumulating power which holds onto a reader's attention not only through the forceful figure of Ord??ez, but by demonstrating acutely how ordinary lives are impacted by the underlying social and political landscape. Compelling reading. -Tom Tolnay, publisher, Birch Brook Press and author of Selling America and This Is the Forest Primeval Barbara de la Cuesta's The Spanish Teacher has everything to thrill you-pace, a great balance of description, gesture and action, charmed, perfectly-tuned dialogue, and most notably, a character we follow as closely and sympathetically as if we were living right there inside the story with him... So many books show us a character who seems to capably hang and move like marionettes from the strings of a fairly competent puppeteer, but rarely do we see a full drama like this, where every bit of the writing extends from, grows out of, is part and parcel with the author's complete realization of and connection to her character... -Don Berger, judge for the Gival Press Novel Award...