Jose Yglesias, Author Arte Publico Press $19.95 (226p) ISBN 978-1-55885-095-8
The late Yglesias at his best was a warm-hearted, witty writer who brought an unusual cultural viewpoint--that of the Cuban-American who predated Castro--to his work. This, his final novel, is, alas, not his best, though the author's quirky charm...
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Jose Yglesias, Author Arte Publico Press $11.95 (178p) ISBN 978-1-55885-162-7
Hiding behind an explosive title is a sagacious but uneven collection of stories ranging from the urbane to the mundane. The stories are all set along the east coast of the U.S., many in the communities of retired cigar-makers in Yglesias's home...
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Jose Yglesias, Author Arte Publico Press $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-55885-161-0
Yglesias, who died two years ago, seems to have left a fair amount of posthumous material. Last year, Arte Publico published the Cuban-American author's less than stellar Break-In. The present short novel, though it is considerably more accomplished,
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Jose Yglesias, Author Arbor House $0 (180p) ISBN 978-0-87795-913-7
It's been much too long since the last novel by the paterfamilias of the Yglesias clan, and meanwhile wife Helen and son Rafael both have been busy. His new one is a real change of pace: a raunchy, sometimes sentimental, occasionally bitter but...
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Jose Yglesias, Author Simon & Schuster $17.45 (265p) ISBN 978-0-671-67335-2
In this sardonic tale of two cultures, New Yorker Tristan GranadosYale undergrad, son of a Cuban-born screenwriter and WASP motheris dispatched to Tampa, Fla., to make funeral arrangements after the death of his paternal grandfather, a modestly...
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