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Author : Robert James Waller
Release : 1995
Genre : English fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 047/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Border Music by : Robert James Waller
Download or read book Border Music written by Robert James Waller. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poignant novel of love and life and the ties of past secrets. By the author of 'The bridges of Madison county' and 'Slow waltz in Cedar Bend'.
Author : Jim Lynch
Release : 2010-07-06
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 242/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Border Songs by : Jim Lynch
Download or read book Border Songs written by Jim Lynch. This book was released on 2010-07-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brandon Vanderkool’s severe dyslexia and six-foot-eight height give him an unusual perspective on his new job with the American Border Patrol, along the Washington/BC border — just a long, grassy ditch, really, barely dividing neighbours who used to be as congenial as those in any small community. Though his curious mind proves surprisingly adept at intercepting Canadian pot smugglers and potentially dangerous illegals, years of security hysteria and cross-border resentment — and a fascinating young Canadian who has turned her green thumb to a more lucrative crop — complicate Brandon’ s world in ways even he might not be able to see past. Border Songs is that rare delight: a gently satirical portrait, an extraordinary love story and a celebration of the coincidental and the miraculous.
Author : Jim Lynch
Release : 2009-06-16
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 900/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Border Songs by : Jim Lynch
Download or read book Border Songs written by Jim Lynch. This book was released on 2009-06-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the previously sleepy hinterlands straddling Washington state and British Columbia, Border Songs is the story of Brandon Vanderkool, six foot eight, frequently tongue-tied, severely dyslexic, and romantically inept. Passionate about bird-watching, Brandon has a hard time mustering enthusiasm for his new job as a Border Patrol agent guarding thirty miles of largely invisible boundary. But to everyone’s surprise, he excels at catching illegal immigrants, and as drug runners, politicians, surveillance cameras, and a potential sweetheart flock to this scrap of land, Brandon is suddenly at the center of something much bigger than himself. A magnificent novel of birding, smuggling, farming and extraordinary love, Border Songs welcomes us to a changing community populated with some of the most memorable characters in recent fiction.
Author : Robert James Waller
Release : 1995
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 304/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Border Music by : Robert James Waller
Download or read book Border Music written by Robert James Waller. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poignant novel of love, life and ties of past secrets. Author of "The bridges of Madison County".
Author : Alejandro L. Madrid
Release : 2011-09-29
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 118/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Transnational Encounters by : Alejandro L. Madrid
Download or read book Transnational Encounters written by Alejandro L. Madrid. This book was released on 2011-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.S.-Mexico border, Transnational Encounters seeks to provide a new perspective on the complex character of this geographic area. By focusing not only on norteña, banda or conjunto musics (the most stereotypical musical traditions among Hispanics in the area) but also engaging a number of musical practices that have often been neglected in the study of this border's history and culture (indigenous musics, African American musical traditions, pop musics), the authors provide a glance into the diversity of ethnic groups that have encountered each other throughout the area's history. Against common misconceptions about the U.S.-Mexico border as a predominant Mexican area, this book argues that it is diversity and not homogeneity which characterizes it. From a wide variety of disciplinary and multidisciplinary enunciations, these essays explore the transnational connections that inform these musical cultures while keeping an eye on their powerful local significance, in an attempt to redefine notions like "border," "nation," "migration," "diaspora," etc. Looking at music and its performative power through the looking glass of cultural criticism allows this book to contribute to larger intellectual concerns and help redefine the field of U.S.-Mexico border studies beyond the North/South and American/Mexican dichotomies. Furthermore, the essays in this book problematize some of the widespread misconceptions about U.S.-Mexico border history and culture in the current debate about immigration.
