Both heroic and tragic, this novel captures the spirit, energy, and imagination of the 1960s' Chicano movement—a massive and intense struggle across a broad spectrum of political and cultural issues—through the passionate story of the King of the Chicanos, Ramón Hidalgo. From his very humble beginnings through the tumultuous decades of being a migrant farm worker, door-to-door salesman, prison inmate, political hack, and radical activist, the novel relates Hidalgo’s personal failures and self-destructive personality amid the political turmoil of the times. With a gradual acceptance of his destiny as a leader and hero of the people, this impassioned novel relates the maturation of one man while encapsulating the fever of the Chicano movement.
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Manuel Ramos is the author of The Ballad of Gato Guerrero, The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz, Blues for the Buffalo, Brown-on-Brown, The Last Client of Luis Móntez, and Moony's Road to Hell. He won the Chicano/Latino Literary Award and was nominated for an Edgar award. He lives in Denver, Colorado.
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I like foreign police procedurals and noir. I have read the entire Manuel Ramos series and I think it is very good. From my point of view he is a pretty obscure author who I found at Gotham Book Mart before they closed up, and I have never seen this series on the shelves of B&N or Borders or other independents; mostly these "unknown" authors turn out to be a bit disappointing but this series turned out to be very entertaining and "authentic". I put these in the class of Leonardo Padura (Havana series) and Paco Taibo II (Belascoaran Shayne).
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A Primer for the Chicano Era of the 60's & 70's,
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I really enjoyed reading this novel. The author vividly describes the era and the social culture of the 40's through the 70's for Latinos who identify with the name Chicano. It isn't an academic book, but a story that is well versed in the era of civil rights for Chicanos and one of it's leaders(fictionalized). You don't have to be Chicano to identify with the story of personal struggle, poverty, racism, politics, ego, or betrayals. The only reason I didn't give it a 5 is because it's a little too narrative for me and sometimes there was too much 'reader feeder.' That might be because the author wrote it a few years ago. But it is an interesting and well written story.
I'm ordering the other books he's written and can't wait to read them both.
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