Everything Begins & Ends At The Kentucky Club

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 222 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Winner of the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction!Benjamin Alire Sáenzs stories reveal how all borders & real, imagined, sexual, human, the line between dark and light, addict and straight & entangle those who live on either side. Take, for instance, the Kentucky Club on Avenida Juárez two blocks south of the Rio Grande. Its a touchstone for each of Sáenzs stories. His characters walk by, they might go in for a drink or to score, or they might just stay there for a while and let their story be told. Sáenz knows that the Kentucky Club, like special watering holes in all cities, is the contrary to borders. It welcomes Spanish and English, Mexicans and gringos, poor and rich, gay and straight, drug addicts and drunks, laughter and sadness, and even despair. Its a place of rich history and good drinks and cold beer and a long polished mahogany bar. Some days it smells like piss. "Im going home to the other side." Thats a strange statement, but you hear it all the time at the Kentucky Club.Benjamin Alire Sáenz is a highly regarded writer of fiction, poetry, and childrens literature. Like these stories, his writing crosses borders and lands in our collective psyche. Poets & Writers Magazine named him one of the fifty most inspiring writers in the world. Hes been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN Centers prestigious award for young adult fiction. Sáenz is the chair of the creative writing department of University of Texas at El Paso.Awards:PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionLambda Literary AwardSouthwest Book Award

ISBN: 9781935955320