The Milagro Beanfield War

Author : John Nichols
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466859616

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The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols Pdf

The Milagro Beanfield War is the first book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy (“Gentle, funny, transcendent.” —The New York Times Book Review), later adapted to film by Robert Redford. Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddle in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroys their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation.

Author : Ned Rorem
Publisher : New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39015040210307

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The Final Diary, 1961-1972 by Ned Rorem Pdf

Author : John Nichols
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466859623

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The Nirvana Blues by John Nichols Pdf

This final volume in John Nichols's acclaimed New Mexico trilogy, (“Gentle, funny, transcendent.” —New York Times Book Review). Like its predecessors, The Nirvana Blues is a lusty, visionary novel that blends comedy and tragedy, reality and fantasy, tenderness and bite, to illuminate some very troubling truths about America—truths no less pointed and accurate today than they were decades ago. The seventies are over. All across America, the overgrown kids of the middle class are getting their acts together—and getting older. The once-tight Chicano community of Chamisaville is long gone, and the Anglo power brokers control almost everything. Joe Miniver—faithful husband, loving father, and all-around good guy—is about to sink roots. To buy the land he wants, he dreams up a coke scam that will net him the necessary bread. Joe is also about to embark on a series of erotic adventures with three headstrong women, bringing him face-to-face with the terrors (and absurdity) of the modern man-woman scene. The Nirvana Blues is part of John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy, which includes The Milagro Beanfield War and The Magic Journey

Author : John Nichols
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393349528

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The Sterile Cuckoo by John Nichols Pdf

“A hilarious, sad . . . all too true novel about the rough underside of a college love affair.”—John Knowles, author of A Separate Peace When eighteen-year-old Jerry Payne first meets Pookie Adams at the Friarsburg, Oklahoma, bus depot, he is hardly aware that this moment marks the beginning of the most memorable love affair of his life. Overwhelmed (and yet secretly enchanted) by her zany, rambling monologue, Jerry is relieved to leave her in St. Louis as he continues to New York. Thinking he’s seen the last of her, he heads off to college, only to be pursued by seventeen lengthy letters, and before he knows it he’s involved with a seemingly crazy, startlingly honest girl who adores him. During the next two years, Pookie helps Jerry leave behind the fun-seeking, beer-blasted fraternity man he has become, as she teaches him to open his heart to her. Then, almost as suddenly as she appeared in his life, she disappears from it, leaving in her wake an eternal trail of love and wonder.

Author : John Nichols
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466859609

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The Magic Journey by John Nichols Pdf

Spanning forty years, the second book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy, The Magic Journey, tells the tale of how relentless progress transformed a rural backwater into a boomtown. Boom times came to the forgotten little southwestern town of Chamisaville just as the rest of America was in the Great Depression. They came when a rattletrap bus loaded with stolen dynamite blew sky-high, leaving behind a giant gushing hot spring. Within minutes, the town's wheeler-dealers had organized, and within a year, Chamisaville was flooded with tourists and pilgrims, and the wheeler-dealers were rich. At first, it was a magic time for Chamisaville—almost as if every day were a holiday. But the euphoria gradually dissipated, and the land-hungry developers, speculators, and interlopers moved in. Finally, the day came when Chamisaville's people found themselves all but displaced, their children no longer heirs to their land or their tradition. With mounting intensity, The Magic Journey reaches a climax that is tragically foreordained. A sensitive, vital, and honest chronicle of life in America's Southwest, it is also an incisive commentary on what America has become on its road to progress. The Magic Journey is part of John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy, which includes The Milagro Beanfield War and The Nirvana Blues.

Author : John Treadwell Nichols
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Butterflies
ISBN : 9780811870696

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The Voice of the Butterfly by John Treadwell Nichols Pdf

Author : José A. Rivera
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780826327208

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Acequia Culture by José A. Rivera Pdf

Conflicts between Hispanic farmers and developers made for compelling reading in The Milagro Beanfield War, the famous novel of life in a northern New Mexico village in which tradition triumphs over modernity. But as cities grow and industries expand, are acequias, or community irrigation ditches, a wise and efficient use of water in the arid Southwest? José Rivera presents the contemporary case for the value of acequias and the communities they nurture in the river valleys of southern Colorado and New Mexico. Recognizing that "water is the lifeblood of the community," Rivera delineates an acequia culture based on a reciprocal relationship between irrigation and community. The acequia experience grows out of a conservation ethic and a tradition of sharing that should be recognized and preserved in an age of increasing competition for scarce water resources. "A worthwhile contribution to the future management of water resources."--Professor Michael C. Meyer

Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062345493

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Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford Pdf

“Red Sky at Morning is a minor marvel: it is a novel of paradox, of identity, of an overwhelming YES to life that embraces with wonder what we are pleased to call the human condition. In short, a work of art.” — Harper Lee Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as “a sort of Catcher in the Rye out West,” Richard Bradford’s Red Sky at Morning is the classic coming-of-age story set during World War II about the enduring spirit of youth and the values in life that count. In the summer of 1944, Frank Arnold, a wealthy shipbuilder in Mobile, Alabama, receives his volunteer commission in the U.S. Navy and moves his wife, Ann, and seventeen-year-old son, Josh, to the family’s summer home in the village of Corazon Sagrado, high in the New Mexico mountains. A true daughter of the Confederacy, Ann finds it impossible to cope with the quality of life in the largely Hispanic village and, in the company of Jimbob Buel—an insufferable, South-proud, professional houseguest—takes to bridge and sherry. Josh, on the other hand, becomes an integral member of the Sagrado community, forging friendships with his new classmates, with the town’s disreputable resident artist, and with Amadeo and Excilda Montoya, the couple hired by his father to care for their house. Josh narrates the story of his fateful year in Sagrado and, with irresistibly deadpan, irreverent humor, describes the events and people who influence his progress to maturity. Unhindered by his mother's disdain for these "tacky, dusty little Westerners," Josh comes into his own and into a young man's finely formed understanding of duty, responsibility, and love.

Author : John Treadwell Nichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826357717

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My Heart Belongs to Nature by John Treadwell Nichols Pdf

In My Heart Belongs to Nature, Nichols records his forty-five-year connection to the Taos valley and its mountains, where he still lives.

Author : John Nichols
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811870665

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The Empanada Brotherhood by John Nichols Pdf

An aspiring writing adrift in New York finds love and community at a corner empanada stand in this novel by the author of The Milagro Beanfield War. It’s Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, when ex-patriots, artists, and colorful bums are kings. A tiny stand selling empanadas near the corner of Bleecker and MacDougal streets is the center of the action for the shy narrator, an aspiring writer just out of college. There, he falls in with a crowd of kooky outcasts from Argentina who introduce him to their raucous adventures, melodramatic dreams, and women—particularly a tough little flamenco dancer from Buenos Aires. Charming and insightful, this deceptively simple novel is a tale told by a master. It is a wise coming-of-age story, full of joy and touched by heartbreak, that captures a special time and place with extraordinary empathy and humor.

Author : John Treadwell Nichols,William Davis
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393311597

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If Mountains Die by John Treadwell Nichols,William Davis Pdf

A celebration--in words and pictures--of one of the most beautiful areas of the United States: the Taos Valley of northern New Mexico.

Author : Sergio Troncoso
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780816519613

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The Last Tortilla & Other Stories by Sergio Troncoso Pdf

An anthology of stories on Mexican-Americans. One deals with the gulf between Anglo and Latin cultures, another is a romance between an older woman and a younger man, a third is on a boy's satisfaction with a job well done.

Author : Satyananda J. Gabriel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315098708

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Political Economy Goes to the Movies by Satyananda J. Gabriel Pdf

Political Economy Goes to the Movies provides an introduction to political economy using a wide range of popular films and documentaries as the objects of analysis. The work helps readers to understand and analyze the economic and related political, cultural, and ecological relationships depicted in selected films. This is achieved through the lens of past and present economic theories and in the context of debates over the dynamic influence of economics on individual life chances. Film may have more to teach us about the real world than the abstractions of certain economic theories. A world of income inequality, child labor in mills and mines, local rebellions against land seizures, and wars triggered by economic conflicts provide the context for many films mirroring real world events. Some films depict the interacting and intersecting political, economic, cultural, and ecological contexts within and between variant economic relationships, whereas other films show “catastrophes” such as economic depressions, disruptive social transitions, violent revolutions, and existential environmental degradation – a world in disequilibrium. Films allow us to see a panoply of human social relationships and related problems, even to explore cataclysmic moments in our species life, but not to necessarily see the why of these relationships and problems. Simultaneously, mainstream economics has severe constraints on what can be analyzed. Film exposes this weakness of the mainstream model. Twelve Years a Slave, Trumbo, The Big Short and others are analyzed for their realism by referencing documented historical social events, and behavioral economics provides further data for analyzing the realism of social interaction within the films. Exploring events and contexts absent from the typical economics text or the basic level economics classes, this work is essential reading for students and scholars of political economy in both economics and politics departments, as well as those of pluralist economics and Marxist economics.

Author : Cecile Pineda
Publisher : Wings Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780916727994

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Devil's Tango by Cecile Pineda Pdf

As much personal journal as investigative journalism, this account traces the worsening developments at Fukushima Daiichi during the first year following the nuclear disaster. Often poetic in tone and philosophic in scope, this day-to-day reportage is peppered with the author's reflections and dramatic monologues as she investigates the public's willing blindness toward the nuclear power industry's disregard for public safety in the pursuit of profit. The book offers a unique perspective and attempts to come to terms with Fukushima's catastrophic consequences on the planet.

Author : New Mexico Magazine (Firm)
Publisher : New Mexico Magazine
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046484757

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100 Years of Filmmaking in New Mexico 1898-1998 by New Mexico Magazine (Firm) Pdf

A well-illustrated history of movies made in New Mexico, the actors, directors, and producers involved; the dramatic scenery, and even the architecture of historic movie theatres.