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Under the Feet of Jesus audiobook
- By: Helena Maria Viramontes
- Narrator: Nancy Ticotin
- Category: Fiction, Literary
- Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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Under the Feet of Jesus Audiobook Summary
A moving and powerful novel about the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions as migrant workers in California’s fields.
“Viramontes depicts this world with sensuous physicality…working firmly in the social-realist vein of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.”—Publishers Weekly
At the center of this powerful tale is Estrella, a girl about to cross the perilous border to womanhood. What she knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the margins of society, she learns to fight back and is able to help the young farmworker she loves when his ambitions and very life are threatened in a harvest of death.
Infused with the beauty of the California landscape and shifting splendors of the passing seasons juxtaposed with the bleakness of poverty, this vividly imagined novel is worthy of the people it celebrates and whose story it tells so magnificently. The simple lyrical beauty of Viramontes’ prose, her haunting use of image and metaphor, and the urgency of her themes all announce Under the Feat of Jesus as a landmark work of American fiction.
Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature
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Under the Feet of Jesus Audiobook Narrator
Nancy Ticotin is the narrator of Under the Feet of Jesus audiobook that was written by Helena Maria Viramontes
About the Author(s) of Under the Feet of Jesus
Helena Maria Viramontes is the author of Under the Feet of Jesus
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Under the Feet of Jesus Full Details
| Narrator | Nancy Ticotin |
| Length | 4 hours 36 minutes |
| Author | Helena Maria Viramontes |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781984844699 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Under the Feet of Jesus is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: racism, helena maria viramontes, under the feet of jesus, women writers, literary fiction, immigrants, hispanic american literature, hispanic american, cultural heritage, hispanic authors, hispanic fiction, hispanic, family life, migrant workers, immigration stories, realistic fiction, coming of age novels, coming of age, immigration, jesus, contemporary fiction, abandonment, first love, family, california, poverty, migrant worker, labor, farm labor, mexican, mexican american, immigrant, young love, love story, sociology, history, Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Cultural Heritage, Fiction, Hispanic & Latino The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary
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The publisher of the Under the Feet of Jesus is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781984844699.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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