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Nickel and Dime

Name: Nickel and Dime
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
SKU: 9780826321862
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESSISBN: 9780826321862

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By Gary Soto
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
Release Date: March 31, 2000
Format: PAPERBACK
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Pages: 189

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"I'm outta here! I got a future!" crows Roberto Silva when he is down-sized out of his job as a security guard at a bank in Oakland. But Roberto's future isn't the one he was looking forward to. This is the 1990s, and upward mobility in the city requires resources that Roberto is short of. Before he knows it, he is living in an abandoned quonset hut and then on the street, where he crosses paths with poet Silver Mendez, a survivor of the 1960s whose luck has run out, and Gus Hernandez, a compadre from his days at the bank. The ups and downs of the lives of men who are always looking for a way to earn a cup of coffee with plenty of sugar and cream, their desperate ingenuity, their hunger, their dauntless optimism have never been brought to life as vividly as in this sweet, sad, funny trio of interlocking stories by one of America's most original writers.

Gary Soto

Soto shows a talent for revealing the hard-knock life of the characters in "Nickel and Dime," . . . Ythis? novel has a decidedly more optimistic tone, reflecting as it does the worldview of a man who has every right to be bitter but amazingly is not. . . . It further establishes Soto as an affecting writer for adults as well as young people. The ups and downs of the lives of men . . . are vividly brought to life in this sweet, sad, funny trio of interlocking stories by one of Americas most original writers. "Soto shows a talent for revealing the hard-knock life of the characters in "Nickel and Dime, . . . [this] novel has a decidedly more optimistic tone, reflecting as it does the worldview of a man who has every right to be bitter but amazingly is not. . . . It further establishes Soto as an affecting writer for adults as well as young people."

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