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Before the End, After the Beginning
Dagoberto Gilb
Stories
Grove Press
November 2011
On Sale: November 1, 2011
192 pages ISBN: 0802120008 EAN: 9780802120007 Kindle: B005VSIX32 Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
Before the End, After the Beginning is a personal and honest
collection of ten exquisite stories from Dagoberto Gilb. The
pieces come in the wake of a stroke Gilb suffered at his
home in Austin, Texas, in 2009, and a majority of the
stories were written over many months of recovery. The
result is a powerful and triumphant collection that tackles
common themes of mortality and identity and describes the
American experience in a raw, authentic vernacular unique to
Gilb. These ten stories take readers throughout the American West
and Southwest, from Los Angeles and Albuquerque to El Paso
and Austin. Gilb covers territory familiar to some of his
earlier work—a mother and son’s relationship in Southern
California in the story ‘Uncle Rock’ or a character looking
to shed his mixed up past in ‘The Last Time I Saw
Junior’—while dealing with themes of mortality and
limitation that have arisen during his own illness.
Confronting issues of masculinity, sexuality, and mortality,
Gilb has recovered and produced what may be his most
extraordinary achievement to date.
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