Benignas Chimayo: Cuentos from the Old Plaza

Author:   Don J Usner
Publisher:   Museum of New Mexico Press
ISBN:  

9780890133828


Pages:   153
Publication Date:   16 July 2003
Format:   Paperback
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Benignas Chimayo: Cuentos from the Old Plaza


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Listen to this authentic voice from the far land of New Mexico's past. Pull up a chair. Throw away your watch. The author will tell you a story. She was born more than a century ago, and her stories were born centuries before that. Now through the graceful agency of her grandson, Don Usner, her stories will live on, told and retold, shared widely, the irrepressible spirit of old New Mexico captured and held between these covers.

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Author:   Don J Usner
Publisher:   Museum of New Mexico Press
Imprint:   Museum of New Mexico Press
Dimensions:   Width: 24.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 20.50cm
Weight:   0.492kg
ISBN:  

9780890133828


ISBN 10:   0890133824
Pages:   153
Publication Date:   16 July 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Usner has gathered fourteen traditional cuentos, gifts from his grandmother, Benigna Ortega Chavez. Here they are retold in English and regional New Mexico Spanish and remind us of a time when storytelling was an important tradition in northern New Mexico.


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