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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.
The winner of PEN's Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award presents a
lovely, heartbreaking, finely crafted collection of stories about
the poor and working-class in America's Southwest. "As unexpectedly
beguiling and unforgettable as the arid stretches between their
settings in El Paso and Los Angeles".--Library Journal.
Dagoberto Gilb is an acknowledged master of the short story, the
winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, and a PEN/Faulkner finalist for
his debut collection, The Magic of Blood, and was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship for his fiction writing. His critically
acclaimed collection Woodcuts of Women is now available in
paperback and features ten moving and heartbreaking stories of
lust, love, and longing among men and women struggling to find
their way in the world. Written in Gilb's spare, humid language,
each of these haunting stories is crafted with a poetic, aching
beauty. At turns powerful and resonant, hopeful and humorous,
Woodcuts of Women is a tour de force by one of America's foremost
Latino writers. "The sheer intensity and bravado of [Gilb's] vision
make this collection succeed." -- Jean Thompson, The New York Times
Book Review "Lonely, tough stories -- stories that force us to
confront what's difficult in us, and in the people we love." --
Adrienne Miller, Esquire "Gilb's stories read like verbal woodcuts
deliberately unrefined and carefully unadorned, clear in their
intent but without undue elaboration...." -- Sean Glennon, The
Hartford Courant ."..Gilb writes of the gritty passions of man for
women, grand delusions and tender mercies...." -- Oscar C.
Villalon, San Francisco Chronicle
From Dodger Stadium to the Astrodome, from the Rio Grande Valley to
Chicago, from Veracruz to Puerto Rico, from high-school teams to
stickball in the streets, from the lessons of fathers to the
excited joy of daughters, from massive cheering in the stands at
Wrigley Field to the dynamics of family and community echoing on
the diamond, these fifteen stories use the sport of baseball to
explore geographical, cultural and dream-like spaces that transcend
traditional notions of the game and transform it into a universal
yet wholly individual experience. Featuring the work of Dagoberto
Gilb, Norma Elia Cantu, Nelson Denis, Christine Granados, Rene
Saldana, Jr., and many more.
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