Come Back, Carmen Miranda: Stories of Latin America [Paperback]

Linda Dahl (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris Corp (July 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401054498
• ISBN-13: 978-1401054496
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,587,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I have always loved to write about characters, usually edgy, little-known folks with wonderful stories and talents. I love places and music too, above all, jazz. As a girl, I dreamed about traveling around the world. As soon as I could, I took to the road. I was fortunate to live and work in several Latin American countries and after college (Latin American Studies, minor in
Buddhism - hey, it was the late '60's), I moved to the Yucatan in Mexico. From there I made the pilgrimage to another foreign country called New York City, with a suitcase and several hundred dollars. Finding the requisite cheap, shabby apartment (you could still do that in those days), I started writing in earnest. I had a number of ridiculous jobs to pay the rent, such as writing reviews of C- movies I never actually saw (and no one else seemed to either), driving an ice-cream truck through Central Park for just one day until I had a fender-bender, and writing a history of the cheeses of the world with a two-week deadline for a manic food editor. I also managed to produce novels, biographies and essays about music and quirky travel articles about Latin American topics - the Carmen Miranda Museum in Rio, an interview with a candomble priestess, a.k.a. voodoo, in rudimentary Portuguese, and another with a Mayan healer who fortunately spoke Spanish.
I am happy to say that most of my books have been published, well-reviewed and are still in print. "Gringa in a Strange Land" is my latest, a novel to be published in January of 2010.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars a crazy quilt of short stories, January 16, 2012

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karin b scheele - See all my reviews

This review is from: Come Back, Carmen Miranda: Stories of Latin America (Hardcover)

These rich and colorful short stories embrace an intriguing variety of characters and their view points.Beautifully written,Ms. Dahl has a knack for delving into the mind of her studies.Each person has his or her own unique voice and perspective-from the lost college girl to the bigoted grand dame.

I loved this book,and look forward to exploring more of this writer's work.

4.0 out of 5 stars Come Back, Carmen Miranda, November 8, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Come Back, Carmen Miranda: Stories of Latin America (Paperback)

This is a wonderful group of stories about Mexico and South
America and takes this reader back to the sixties, when so many
of us were living "on the road" lives. Dahl writes deft and deep
portraits of not only American middle-class young people disaffectedly roaming the "other America," but of the people who live there. Old and young, poor and well-to-do, they're all here.
A first class effort, lovingly crafted.